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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 21st, 2021 05:53 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-over-day, the newly reported deaths are up (never good), newly reported confirmed cases are down (yay) but newly reported tests are down by a lot more (boo), leaving at least a possibility that the drop in cases is a weekend reporting artifact rather than any sort of actual downturn. Hospitalization counts and percent-positive are down, which is good. But the estimated active cases count and the seven-day case average keep climbing, and both the seven-day new cases and positivity averages are still up from two weeks ago (as well as still being way above the lowest observed values from last summer and fall).
Meanwhile, that rising case count has boosted Massachusetts to the "very high risk" category at https://www.covidactnow.org/ as the daily incidence rate climbed to 25.4 daily new cases per 100k population. Just what we want to see the day before Governor Charlie Baker moves the state to Phase 4, Step 1 of the Reopening Plan, and downgrades the Travel Order to an "Advisory".
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 13 active and 817 cumulative cases as of March 20. 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.
Day-over-day, the newly reported deaths are up (never good), newly reported confirmed cases are down (yay) but newly reported tests are down by a lot more (boo), leaving at least a possibility that the drop in cases is a weekend reporting artifact rather than any sort of actual downturn. Hospitalization counts and percent-positive are down, which is good. But the estimated active cases count and the seven-day case average keep climbing, and both the seven-day new cases and positivity averages are still up from two weeks ago (as well as still being way above the lowest observed values from last summer and fall).
Meanwhile, that rising case count has boosted Massachusetts to the "very high risk" category at https://www.covidactnow.org/ as the daily incidence rate climbed to 25.4 daily new cases per 100k population. Just what we want to see the day before Governor Charlie Baker moves the state to Phase 4, Step 1 of the Reopening Plan, and downgrades the Travel Order to an "Advisory".
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 13 active and 817 cumulative cases as of March 20. 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.