Not a local COVID-19 update - yet

No explanation given as to why, but today's Massachusetts COVID-19 Interactive Data Dashboard is ... not yet available.

Today's data will be published as soon as it becomes available.

Well, there you go, I guess.

Local COVID-19 updates

After some amount of unexplained delay, we finally have daily numbers:

( Wall-o-text )

Day-to-day deaths down slightly. Cases were down a bunch - but tests were way down (almost sixty percent fewer tests than yesterday, and that was down from the day before; this makes me very nervous that the drop in cases is due to reporting rather than any sort of improvements. The seven-day positivity rate is back up to Saturday's level, as well.

The national tracker at https://www.covidactnow.org/ is currently showing Massachusetts as having the fourth highest incidence of new cases on a per-capita basis; they have the Commonwealth at 22.7 daily new cases per 100k population, behind only New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. The state was number six yesterday, at 22.1 daily cases per 100k, so that's going in the wrong direction. (In case it wasn't obvious.)

The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 17 active and 808 cumulative cases as of March 14. 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.