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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 3rd, 2021 06:05 pmMassachusetts is still having a Year 2021 problem with its URLs; today, they fixed the URL for the dashboard, but not for the raw data. Oh, the joys of trying to dealing with badly maintained data feeds ...
( Wall-o-text: down go cases, up go hospitalizations and deaths )
Anyway, deaths going up day-to-day is bad, and cases dropping a bunch is good; the positivity rate dropping a bit is also good, but the hospitalization counts still going up is bad. In fact, that death count of 105 is the second-highest daily count since May 20 (with 128), beaten only by ... Wednesday's count of 118. And the Christmas surge is still coming. At least the hospitals aren't completely full?
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 49 active and 544 cumulative cases as of January 3. 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.
( Wall-o-text: down go cases, up go hospitalizations and deaths )
Anyway, deaths going up day-to-day is bad, and cases dropping a bunch is good; the positivity rate dropping a bit is also good, but the hospitalization counts still going up is bad. In fact, that death count of 105 is the second-highest daily count since May 20 (with 128), beaten only by ... Wednesday's count of 118. And the Christmas surge is still coming. At least the hospitals aren't completely full?
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 49 active and 544 cumulative cases as of January 3. 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.