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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 23rd, 2021 05:31 pm( Wall-o-text )
Oh, joy. Day-to-day deaths are down (always a yay) but cases are up. The estimated active case count is down a tag, as is the seven-day average of newly reported cases - but the percent-positive ratio is up, as are the total hospitalization counts and COVID-19 ICU counts. And the seven-day averages for cases and percent-positive are still above where we were two weeks ago; for that matter, they're still above where we were four weeks ago on February 23 (1,182 cases, 1.89% positive tests). Dunno about you folks, but that doesn't sound like "progress" to me.
The good folks at https://www.covidactnow.org/ currently have Massachusetts in the red, "very high risk" category, with the seventh-highest daily incidence rate in the country (at 25.7 daily new cases per 100k population); only New Jersey, Rhode Island, Michigan, New York, Delaware, and Connecticut have higher daily case rates. Remember, before the state discontinued its "travel order", a "lower risk state" had to have a daily incidence rate less than ten new daily cases per 100k population; Massachusetts went above that number back in October and hasn't been anywhere near that since.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 13 active and 817 cumulative cases as of March 21, and apparently has not been updated since. 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.
Oh, joy. Day-to-day deaths are down (always a yay) but cases are up. The estimated active case count is down a tag, as is the seven-day average of newly reported cases - but the percent-positive ratio is up, as are the total hospitalization counts and COVID-19 ICU counts. And the seven-day averages for cases and percent-positive are still above where we were two weeks ago; for that matter, they're still above where we were four weeks ago on February 23 (1,182 cases, 1.89% positive tests). Dunno about you folks, but that doesn't sound like "progress" to me.
The good folks at https://www.covidactnow.org/ currently have Massachusetts in the red, "very high risk" category, with the seventh-highest daily incidence rate in the country (at 25.7 daily new cases per 100k population); only New Jersey, Rhode Island, Michigan, New York, Delaware, and Connecticut have higher daily case rates. Remember, before the state discontinued its "travel order", a "lower risk state" had to have a daily incidence rate less than ten new daily cases per 100k population; Massachusetts went above that number back in October and hasn't been anywhere near that since.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 13 active and 817 cumulative cases as of March 21, and apparently has not been updated since. 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.