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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 29th, 2020 06:53 pm( Wall-o-text, with a huge jump in test positivity )
Day-to-day deaths up (not good), cases down (good), and patients in hospital up (not good). However, the change that leapt to my attention was the big jump in the seven day average positivity rate, now up over the seven percent mark for the first time since May 31. That's not as bad as the rates in places like Oklahoma (22.2% today per CovidActNow.org) or California (14.6%), but is still way above the 4% or 5% level that Massachusetts uses to designate high-risk communities.
Oh, and a variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that may be as much as 70% more transmissible that the currently predominant strains has shown up in the US.
Stay at home as much as possible, and stay masked up, folks. I'd be glad if I'm wrong, but it sure looks to me as though things are going to get a lot worse in the next few weeks.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 43 active and 523 cumulative cases as of December 29. 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 (not good), cases down (good), and patients in hospital up (not good). However, the change that leapt to my attention was the big jump in the seven day average positivity rate, now up over the seven percent mark for the first time since May 31. That's not as bad as the rates in places like Oklahoma (22.2% today per CovidActNow.org) or California (14.6%), but is still way above the 4% or 5% level that Massachusetts uses to designate high-risk communities.
Oh, and a variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that may be as much as 70% more transmissible that the currently predominant strains has shown up in the US.
Stay at home as much as possible, and stay masked up, folks. I'd be glad if I'm wrong, but it sure looks to me as though things are going to get a lot worse in the next few weeks.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 43 active and 523 cumulative cases as of December 29. 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.