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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 22nd, 2021 05:27 pm( Wall-o-text )
Mixed bag of day-to-day changes - newly reported deaths and cases both up, but the positivity rate and hospitalization counts are all down. Estimated active cases are ticking up again. The seven-day trends are all down by slight amounts, which is nice to see.
But are things so much better that we can say Massachusetts has passed the peak of the second surge? The Boston Globe asked a bunch of health experts, and got a very mixed bag of answers:
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I can absolutely see why Governor Baker wants to cut business restrictions as fast as he dares; the economic impact of keeping people physically separated has been terrible. But so has the death toll of the last year, not to mention the long-term health impacts on the survivors. And, looking at what the state is reporting over the last several weeks - we ain't there yet, and lifting restrictions right now seems premature to me.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 42 active and 652 cumulative cases as of January 21. 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.
Mixed bag of day-to-day changes - newly reported deaths and cases both up, but the positivity rate and hospitalization counts are all down. Estimated active cases are ticking up again. The seven-day trends are all down by slight amounts, which is nice to see.
But are things so much better that we can say Massachusetts has passed the peak of the second surge? The Boston Globe asked a bunch of health experts, and got a very mixed bag of answers:
( Read more... )
I can absolutely see why Governor Baker wants to cut business restrictions as fast as he dares; the economic impact of keeping people physically separated has been terrible. But so has the death toll of the last year, not to mention the long-term health impacts on the survivors. And, looking at what the state is reporting over the last several weeks - we ain't there yet, and lifting restrictions right now seems premature to me.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 42 active and 652 cumulative cases as of January 21. 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.