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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 12th, 2021 05:32 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-to-day deaths and cases both down - but so were tests, and percent-positive actually went up a bit. Not a thing I want to see when Governor Charlie Baker is hell-bent on reopening businesses and forcing schools into in-person teaching, ready or not. What I want to see are continued downward trends; we're seeing that right now for hospitalizations, which is good, but not really for the other main metrics. And while things are certainly better than at the beginning of the year, things are still much worse than last summer. (Just look at those seven-day averages; each one is still at least twice the lowest observed value.)
The Commonwealth's new and "improved" vaccination preregistration system successfully launched this morning:
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I took a quick peek at the new system, https://vaccinesignup.mass.gov/, which currently only supports the seven mass vaccination sites. The https://vaxfinder.mass.gov/ site no longer shows whether any of the mass vaccination sites have appointments available, which makes it that much less helpful to somebody hoping to find openings. I guess the good news is that neither of those sites is throwing random HTTP error codes?
Unsurprisingly, the vaccination follies are leaving folks less and less impressed with Baker's performance dealing with the pandemic:
( Read more... )
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 14 active and 794 cumulative cases as of March 10, and has apparently not been updated since. 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 deaths and cases both down - but so were tests, and percent-positive actually went up a bit. Not a thing I want to see when Governor Charlie Baker is hell-bent on reopening businesses and forcing schools into in-person teaching, ready or not. What I want to see are continued downward trends; we're seeing that right now for hospitalizations, which is good, but not really for the other main metrics. And while things are certainly better than at the beginning of the year, things are still much worse than last summer. (Just look at those seven-day averages; each one is still at least twice the lowest observed value.)
The Commonwealth's new and "improved" vaccination preregistration system successfully launched this morning:
( Read more... )
I took a quick peek at the new system, https://vaccinesignup.mass.gov/, which currently only supports the seven mass vaccination sites. The https://vaxfinder.mass.gov/ site no longer shows whether any of the mass vaccination sites have appointments available, which makes it that much less helpful to somebody hoping to find openings. I guess the good news is that neither of those sites is throwing random HTTP error codes?
Unsurprisingly, the vaccination follies are leaving folks less and less impressed with Baker's performance dealing with the pandemic:
( Read more... )
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 14 active and 794 cumulative cases as of March 10, and has apparently not been updated since. 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.