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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 19th, 2021 06:39 pm( Wall-o-text, and percent-positive is back over two percent )
The day-to-day changes aren't good; newly reported deaths, cases and percent-positive rate are all up. In fact, that seven-day average percent positive rate is over two percent for the first time since February 21. Yes, the hospitalization counts are down, but those rising case rates bode ill for the future.
The front page of today's Boston Globe had the banner headline Warning: It's not over:
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If anything, the Globe story is underestimating the situation here in Massachusetts, where the last three days have seen well over the fifteen hundred new cases mentioned in the second paragraph. The folks at https://www.covidactnow.org/ currently list Massachusetts as having the seventh-highest number of new daily new cases per 100,000 population, at 23.3 per 100k; that's not what I'd call progress, since Michigan and Delaware have moved into the 25-75 cases per 100k very high risk level, and Connecticut has moved up almost that high. Massachusetts isn't that high - yet.
But apparently that's not enough to worry Governor Charlie Baker, who last I heard is still planning to move to Phase 4 of the reopening plan on Monday.
At least we've still got room in the hospitals and ICUs. For now.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 18 active and 813 cumulative cases as of March 18. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 2PM on March 19, 2021 reported 813 cumulative cases with 9 individuals in isolation, 772 persons recovered and 32 fatalities; that's 22 more cumulative cases, 31 more persons recovered and (thankfully) no more fatalities than the previous report at 10PM on March 10.
The day-to-day changes aren't good; newly reported deaths, cases and percent-positive rate are all up. In fact, that seven-day average percent positive rate is over two percent for the first time since February 21. Yes, the hospitalization counts are down, but those rising case rates bode ill for the future.
The front page of today's Boston Globe had the banner headline Warning: It's not over:
( Read more... )
If anything, the Globe story is underestimating the situation here in Massachusetts, where the last three days have seen well over the fifteen hundred new cases mentioned in the second paragraph. The folks at https://www.covidactnow.org/ currently list Massachusetts as having the seventh-highest number of new daily new cases per 100,000 population, at 23.3 per 100k; that's not what I'd call progress, since Michigan and Delaware have moved into the 25-75 cases per 100k very high risk level, and Connecticut has moved up almost that high. Massachusetts isn't that high - yet.
But apparently that's not enough to worry Governor Charlie Baker, who last I heard is still planning to move to Phase 4 of the reopening plan on Monday.
At least we've still got room in the hospitals and ICUs. For now.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 18 active and 813 cumulative cases as of March 18. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 2PM on March 19, 2021 reported 813 cumulative cases with 9 individuals in isolation, 772 persons recovered and 32 fatalities; that's 22 more cumulative cases, 31 more persons recovered and (thankfully) no more fatalities than the previous report at 10PM on March 10.