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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 28th, 2021 05:46 pm( Wall-o-text )
Mixed bag on the day-to-day numbers. Newly reported confirmed deaths are down day-to-day, which is always good; however, newly reported confirmed cases were back up over four thousand, which is not good. Overall COVID hospitalizations are down, but ICU counts are up. Happily, the percent-positive ratio is still dropping.
The other noteworthy thing I see is an improvement in the number of cities and towns in the red "high risk" category; the state is now down to 192 such communities, down thirty from last week's 222. Major cities like Boston and small towns like Stow both dropped down to the yellow band, courtesy of lower percent-percent-positive rates.
Meanwhile, the state is continuing to try and get folks 75 and older signed up for COVID vaccinations, for when the first part of Phase 2 starts on February 1. To date, things have gone ... frustratingly:
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I can't really blame the governor that much for either the catastrophic clusterfuck that was the Trump Adminstration's "approach" to the pandemic, nor for the fact that the Biden Adminstration has not magically solved all the problems from said Trump Adminstration in the one week the latter has been in office. And, frankly, if the Feds can't yet tell the state how much vaccine is coming in any given week, there's not a lot the state can do about it. However, one thing the state could have done, and in my not terribly humble opinion should have done, is get the public communications around the rollout in order ahead of time (even if all they could say was "we dunno yet"). There's no good reason not to have call centers open already.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 43 active and 667 cumulative cases as of January 27. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 1:30PM on January 25, 2021 reported 655 cumulative cases with 49 individuals in isolation, 575 persons recovered and 31 fatalities.
Mixed bag on the day-to-day numbers. Newly reported confirmed deaths are down day-to-day, which is always good; however, newly reported confirmed cases were back up over four thousand, which is not good. Overall COVID hospitalizations are down, but ICU counts are up. Happily, the percent-positive ratio is still dropping.
The other noteworthy thing I see is an improvement in the number of cities and towns in the red "high risk" category; the state is now down to 192 such communities, down thirty from last week's 222. Major cities like Boston and small towns like Stow both dropped down to the yellow band, courtesy of lower percent-percent-positive rates.
Meanwhile, the state is continuing to try and get folks 75 and older signed up for COVID vaccinations, for when the first part of Phase 2 starts on February 1. To date, things have gone ... frustratingly:
( Read more... )
I can't really blame the governor that much for either the catastrophic clusterfuck that was the Trump Adminstration's "approach" to the pandemic, nor for the fact that the Biden Adminstration has not magically solved all the problems from said Trump Adminstration in the one week the latter has been in office. And, frankly, if the Feds can't yet tell the state how much vaccine is coming in any given week, there's not a lot the state can do about it. However, one thing the state could have done, and in my not terribly humble opinion should have done, is get the public communications around the rollout in order ahead of time (even if all they could say was "we dunno yet"). There's no good reason not to have call centers open already.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 43 active and 667 cumulative cases as of January 27. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 1:30PM on January 25, 2021 reported 655 cumulative cases with 49 individuals in isolation, 575 persons recovered and 31 fatalities.