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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 30th, 2020 05:21 pm( Wall-o-text, with double yesterday's deaths and another huge jump in positivity )
Fuck, that's some bad news today. Apart from a very slight tick downward in the total number of folks hospitalized with COVID-19, all the other day-to-day changes are way up. Deaths more than doubled to 118, the highest since May 20, and the state total is now over twelve thousand. Even scarier, the seven day average positive test rate jumped almost a full percentage point to 8.44%; just a week ago, that average was below six percent.
Other bad signs: the average age of folks being hospitalized and the average age of folks dying both went up, as did the average turnaround time (from when a test sample was taken to when the results are reported to the state). Maybe that last is due to holiday effects, but it's not good in any case.
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.
Fuck, that's some bad news today. Apart from a very slight tick downward in the total number of folks hospitalized with COVID-19, all the other day-to-day changes are way up. Deaths more than doubled to 118, the highest since May 20, and the state total is now over twelve thousand. Even scarier, the seven day average positive test rate jumped almost a full percentage point to 8.44%; just a week ago, that average was below six percent.
Other bad signs: the average age of folks being hospitalized and the average age of folks dying both went up, as did the average turnaround time (from when a test sample was taken to when the results are reported to the state). Maybe that last is due to holiday effects, but it's not good in any case.
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.