2021-03-01

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2021-03-01 05:35 pm
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Local COVID-19 updates

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Day-to-day changes look great at first glance - deaths and cases both down - but tests were way down, which makes the drop in cases look like weekend reporting effects rather than improvements overall. Day-to-day upticks in hospitalization and the seven-day averages for cases and percent-positive also aren't what I'd call great news.

Not that that's going to deter Charlie Baker from his grand reopening plans:
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... even though public health experts say it's a big mistake:
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Me? I get how desperate many businesses are, but the absolute last damn thing we need is yet another surge in cases and deaths. I'd take the advice of Doctor Fauci and Doctor Walensky on this one.

The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 22 active and 769 cumulative cases as of February 28. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 5PM on February 26, 2021 reported 766 cumulative cases with 27 individuals in isolation, 707 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.