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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 13th, 2021 05:12 pm( Wall-o-text )
A mixed bag day-to-day; deaths are up, cases are down (slightly), tests are up, percent-positive is down, and hospitalizations are up (again, slightly). But the state still has one of the highest rates of per-capital new cases per day in the nation; the dashboard at https://www.covidactnow.org/ has Massachusetts with 22.1 daily new cases per 100k, fifth in the country, behind New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. Not good company to be in; average daily cases need to be less than ten per 100k (along with test positivity less than five percent) to be a "lower-risk" state per the current Massachusetts Travel Order. Yes, things are better than earlier this year; but the state is relaxing restrictions at a time when things are (a) still not good and (b) no longer improving rapidly. This is not what I call a good combination.
Oh, and the state has now officially crossed the six-hundred-thousand case threshold, if one combines confirmed and probable cases.
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.
A mixed bag day-to-day; deaths are up, cases are down (slightly), tests are up, percent-positive is down, and hospitalizations are up (again, slightly). But the state still has one of the highest rates of per-capital new cases per day in the nation; the dashboard at https://www.covidactnow.org/ has Massachusetts with 22.1 daily new cases per 100k, fifth in the country, behind New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. Not good company to be in; average daily cases need to be less than ten per 100k (along with test positivity less than five percent) to be a "lower-risk" state per the current Massachusetts Travel Order. Yes, things are better than earlier this year; but the state is relaxing restrictions at a time when things are (a) still not good and (b) no longer improving rapidly. This is not what I call a good combination.
Oh, and the state has now officially crossed the six-hundred-thousand case threshold, if one combines confirmed and probable cases.
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.