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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 22nd, 2020 05:38 pm( Wall-o-text, with mixed results )
Day-to-day deaths up slightly; cases down and tests up, but positivity up a bit (presumably due to older test results finally showing up?). One thing nice to see - for once, the estimated active cases count is down. Much less nice to see - hospitalization counts are still going up; in fact, today is the first time since May 28 that the state has reported over two thousand COVID-19 patients hospitalized.
Governor Baker has finally gotten off his butt and taken some new action regarding public health, reducing most businesses to 25% of capacity as of the day after Christmas:
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Indoor dining is still allowed, which leaves me more than a little bit skeptical that this will work as well as Baker clearly hopes it will. But it's certainly something; hopefully it'll be enough to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed as the Thanksgiving surge and the (likely) Christmas surge work their ways through the health care system.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 55 active and 484 cumulative cases as of December 22. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 9PM on December 15 reported 433 cumulative cases with 63 individuals in isolation, 345 persons recovered and 25 fatalities.
Day-to-day deaths up slightly; cases down and tests up, but positivity up a bit (presumably due to older test results finally showing up?). One thing nice to see - for once, the estimated active cases count is down. Much less nice to see - hospitalization counts are still going up; in fact, today is the first time since May 28 that the state has reported over two thousand COVID-19 patients hospitalized.
Governor Baker has finally gotten off his butt and taken some new action regarding public health, reducing most businesses to 25% of capacity as of the day after Christmas:
( Read more... )
Indoor dining is still allowed, which leaves me more than a little bit skeptical that this will work as well as Baker clearly hopes it will. But it's certainly something; hopefully it'll be enough to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed as the Thanksgiving surge and the (likely) Christmas surge work their ways through the health care system.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 55 active and 484 cumulative cases as of December 22. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 9PM on December 15 reported 433 cumulative cases with 63 individuals in isolation, 345 persons recovered and 25 fatalities.