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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 7th, 2021 05:52 pm( Wall-o-text, with a single-day record number of new cases reported )
Day-to-day deaths are down a bit, which is nice; the seven-day percent positivity rate is also down, which is nicer. But the number of newly reported cases is not just up substantially. Today's 7,136 newly reported cases mark the first time ever that the state has reported more than seven thousand cases in a single 24-hour period. (The 12/26/2020 and 1/2/2021 reports were higher, but reflected two days of data due to the state not reporting anything on Christmas or New Years Days.) Also concerning are the continued increases in COVID-19 patients in ICUs and on ventilators, and the continued decreases in ICU beds available.
The state used to include city/town level case and test counts, along with a color-coded risk assessment, in its Thursday Weekly Public Health Report. Today's edition does not include that information. The underlying data that used to power that report is now included in the daily raw data file, and (after some poking about) I can find some of that information displayed under the "City and Town" tab of the interactive daily dashboard; however, that dashboard does not include the risk color codes. Has Governor Baker given up on them? In any case, I'll have to tweak my code some more to handle those changes. (Arrgh.)
One thing the Governor is doing: extending the current restrictions for at least two more weeks:
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The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 41 active and 557 cumulative cases as of January 5; it apparently has not been updated since then. 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 are down a bit, which is nice; the seven-day percent positivity rate is also down, which is nicer. But the number of newly reported cases is not just up substantially. Today's 7,136 newly reported cases mark the first time ever that the state has reported more than seven thousand cases in a single 24-hour period. (The 12/26/2020 and 1/2/2021 reports were higher, but reflected two days of data due to the state not reporting anything on Christmas or New Years Days.) Also concerning are the continued increases in COVID-19 patients in ICUs and on ventilators, and the continued decreases in ICU beds available.
The state used to include city/town level case and test counts, along with a color-coded risk assessment, in its Thursday Weekly Public Health Report. Today's edition does not include that information. The underlying data that used to power that report is now included in the daily raw data file, and (after some poking about) I can find some of that information displayed under the "City and Town" tab of the interactive daily dashboard; however, that dashboard does not include the risk color codes. Has Governor Baker given up on them? In any case, I'll have to tweak my code some more to handle those changes. (Arrgh.)
One thing the Governor is doing: extending the current restrictions for at least two more weeks:
( Read more... )
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 41 active and 557 cumulative cases as of January 5; it apparently has not been updated since then. 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.