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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 21st, 2021 05:30 pm( Wall-o-text, with a slight downtick in high-risk towns )
Day-to-day cases are up again, but deaths are down, as are the percent-positive ratio and the various hospitalization counts. The percentages of available hospital beds (both in and out of the ICUs) dropped again on a day-to-day basis, though, and that doesn't seem like good news to me.
Apparently, Governor Baker thinks the state has turned the corner on the holiday surges, as he's decided to lift the stay-at-home advisory and early closure order as of Monday morning:
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I hope he's right, and that things are going in the right direction. I'm not nearly as convinced as he sounds like, though; we're still way above the case levels seen on, say, December 1 of last year. And the virus signals from the latest MRWA wastewater sampling data are still well above November and December levels, which bodes ill for the upcoming weeks.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 42 active and 646 cumulative cases as of January 20. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 10:30PM on January 13, 2021 reported 596 cumulative cases with 62 individuals in isolation, 504 persons recovered and 30 fatalities.
Day-to-day cases are up again, but deaths are down, as are the percent-positive ratio and the various hospitalization counts. The percentages of available hospital beds (both in and out of the ICUs) dropped again on a day-to-day basis, though, and that doesn't seem like good news to me.
Apparently, Governor Baker thinks the state has turned the corner on the holiday surges, as he's decided to lift the stay-at-home advisory and early closure order as of Monday morning:
( Read more... )
I hope he's right, and that things are going in the right direction. I'm not nearly as convinced as he sounds like, though; we're still way above the case levels seen on, say, December 1 of last year. And the virus signals from the latest MRWA wastewater sampling data are still well above November and December levels, which bodes ill for the upcoming weeks.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 42 active and 646 cumulative cases as of January 20. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 10:30PM on January 13, 2021 reported 596 cumulative cases with 62 individuals in isolation, 504 persons recovered and 30 fatalities.