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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 24th, 2021 05:38 pm( Wall-o-text, and percent-positive is back below five percent! )
Definitely good news on a day-to-day basis, as deaths and cases are both down, and percent-positive is below five percent for the first time in seemingly forever, but actually since December 2, 2020, when the seven-day average was 4.94%. The estimated active cases are down, as are all the hospitalization counts - in fact, we're below two thousand COVID-19 patients in hospital for the first time since December 21, when 1,991 patients were reported.
Of course, today is Sunday, which means the data may be impacted by weekend reporting delays. If we keep seeing downward trends come the middle of the week, it might actually be time to think we're past the worst of the state's second surge.
Meanwhile, the Globe provided an interesting peek into the two temporary field hospitals set up for COVID patients in Worcester and Lowell:
( It ain't pretty, but it gets the job done )
The surprising thing, to me, was the bit about how patients in the field hospitals can wander around and socialize (when they feel up to it, that is); however, given that each facility is considered a single COVID-19 hot zone, and all the patients are there for COVID-19, it makes a reasonable amount of sense.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 47 active and 652 cumulative cases as of January 22, and apparently has not been updated since. 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.
Definitely good news on a day-to-day basis, as deaths and cases are both down, and percent-positive is below five percent for the first time in seemingly forever, but actually since December 2, 2020, when the seven-day average was 4.94%. The estimated active cases are down, as are all the hospitalization counts - in fact, we're below two thousand COVID-19 patients in hospital for the first time since December 21, when 1,991 patients were reported.
Of course, today is Sunday, which means the data may be impacted by weekend reporting delays. If we keep seeing downward trends come the middle of the week, it might actually be time to think we're past the worst of the state's second surge.
Meanwhile, the Globe provided an interesting peek into the two temporary field hospitals set up for COVID patients in Worcester and Lowell:
( It ain't pretty, but it gets the job done )
The surprising thing, to me, was the bit about how patients in the field hospitals can wander around and socialize (when they feel up to it, that is); however, given that each facility is considered a single COVID-19 hot zone, and all the patients are there for COVID-19, it makes a reasonable amount of sense.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 47 active and 652 cumulative cases as of January 22, and apparently has not been updated since. 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.