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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 10th, 2021 05:41 pm( Wall-o-text )
Definitely not good news day-to-day, as deaths and cases are both up by a lot, and the seven-day average positivity rate ticked up slightly. The other seven-day averages (cases, deaths and hospitalizations) are all level or down very slightly. Those longer-term averages are all still improvements over two weeks ago - but, again, not by huge amounts, and still way above the lowest observed values from last summer.
The fourteen-day average daily incidence is also down slightly, which is good; but it's still over twenty new cases per 100k population, which is not good. In fact, the latest figures at https://www.covidactnow.org/?s=1653592 show Massachusetts as having the seventh highest daily incidence rate in the country, behind New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, the District of Columbia, and Florida.
On the vaccination front, Governor Charlie Baker is trying again to come up with a signup process that's not a complete clusterfuck; starting Friday, there will be a preregistration system for mass vaccination sites:
( Read more... )
Clearly Baker is still all in on his hire-shiny-consultants-to-run-public-health concept, rather than, say, using the existing public health infrastructure. Considering how badly the first vaccine website rollout worked, not to mention the repeated issues with the various daily data dashboards over the past year, I'm not terribly filled with confidence.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 18 active and 791 cumulative cases as of March 9. 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.
Definitely not good news day-to-day, as deaths and cases are both up by a lot, and the seven-day average positivity rate ticked up slightly. The other seven-day averages (cases, deaths and hospitalizations) are all level or down very slightly. Those longer-term averages are all still improvements over two weeks ago - but, again, not by huge amounts, and still way above the lowest observed values from last summer.
The fourteen-day average daily incidence is also down slightly, which is good; but it's still over twenty new cases per 100k population, which is not good. In fact, the latest figures at https://www.covidactnow.org/?s=1653592 show Massachusetts as having the seventh highest daily incidence rate in the country, behind New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, the District of Columbia, and Florida.
On the vaccination front, Governor Charlie Baker is trying again to come up with a signup process that's not a complete clusterfuck; starting Friday, there will be a preregistration system for mass vaccination sites:
( Read more... )
Clearly Baker is still all in on his hire-shiny-consultants-to-run-public-health concept, rather than, say, using the existing public health infrastructure. Considering how badly the first vaccine website rollout worked, not to mention the repeated issues with the various daily data dashboards over the past year, I'm not terribly filled with confidence.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 18 active and 791 cumulative cases as of March 9. 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.