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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 11th, 2021 05:48 pm( Wall-o-text - now only fourteen highest-risk towns )
Day-to-day, an uptick in cases, but downticks in deaths, hospitalizations and percent-positive. The seven-day averages continue to be better than two weeks ago, but not by too terribly much. We do continue to see progress in the number of highest-risk cities and towns, with only a total of 14 this week; alas, my own town of Acton continues to be stubbornly stuck in the yellow "moderate risk" category, as does the state as a whole.
Today, the state added 40,000 vaccination appointments to its mass-vaccination sites - and they were all snapped up before noon:
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Governor Baker can blame the feds all he wants for inadequate supplies. And I will absolutely give him credit for putting the folks in congregate living at the head of the list, given how incredibly vulnerable those populations have turned out to be. But he's prioritized efficiency (with the old signup software and mass vaccination sites) over equity, and he shouldn't be surprised for a moment that folks who can't get through the clunky signup systems are pissed off.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 14 active and 794 cumulative cases as of March 10. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 10PM on March 10, 2021 reported 791 cumulative cases with 18 individuals in isolation, 741 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.
Day-to-day, an uptick in cases, but downticks in deaths, hospitalizations and percent-positive. The seven-day averages continue to be better than two weeks ago, but not by too terribly much. We do continue to see progress in the number of highest-risk cities and towns, with only a total of 14 this week; alas, my own town of Acton continues to be stubbornly stuck in the yellow "moderate risk" category, as does the state as a whole.
Today, the state added 40,000 vaccination appointments to its mass-vaccination sites - and they were all snapped up before noon:
( Read more... )
Governor Baker can blame the feds all he wants for inadequate supplies. And I will absolutely give him credit for putting the folks in congregate living at the head of the list, given how incredibly vulnerable those populations have turned out to be. But he's prioritized efficiency (with the old signup software and mass vaccination sites) over equity, and he shouldn't be surprised for a moment that folks who can't get through the clunky signup systems are pissed off.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 14 active and 794 cumulative cases as of March 10. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 10PM on March 10, 2021 reported 791 cumulative cases with 18 individuals in isolation, 741 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.