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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 2nd, 2021 05:26 pmJust like last week, Massachusetts did not publish a COVID-19 daily dashboard yesterday; thus today's report covers both New Year's Day and today.
And, just to make life interesting, the URLs to the dashboard and raw data both still have 2020 embedded in them ...
( Wall-o-text with two days worth of bad news )
At least the death count is down, slightly. And, granted this report covers two days. But that count of 8,542 newly reported confirmed cases is the highest such report in the history of this daily dashboard, and the positivity rate continues to climb.
The state has been including hospital bed counts for a while, now; but I'd ignored their data because for the longest time it was being rounded off to the point of uselessness. However, I noticed that they've stopped the rounding, and I've figured out how to add that information to the wall-o-text, which I will be including starting today. Currently, about 17% of the non-ICU beds and 25% of the ICU beds statewide are being reported as "available"; however, the footer on the state's graphs states that these numbers reflect "total beds that hospitals could staff within 12-24 hours".
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 41 active and 536 cumulative cases as of December 31; again, just like last week, it apparently hasn't been updated since. 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.
And, just to make life interesting, the URLs to the dashboard and raw data both still have 2020 embedded in them ...
( Wall-o-text with two days worth of bad news )
At least the death count is down, slightly. And, granted this report covers two days. But that count of 8,542 newly reported confirmed cases is the highest such report in the history of this daily dashboard, and the positivity rate continues to climb.
The state has been including hospital bed counts for a while, now; but I'd ignored their data because for the longest time it was being rounded off to the point of uselessness. However, I noticed that they've stopped the rounding, and I've figured out how to add that information to the wall-o-text, which I will be including starting today. Currently, about 17% of the non-ICU beds and 25% of the ICU beds statewide are being reported as "available"; however, the footer on the state's graphs states that these numbers reflect "total beds that hospitals could staff within 12-24 hours".
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 41 active and 536 cumulative cases as of December 31; again, just like last week, it apparently hasn't been updated since. 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.