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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 27th, 2021 05:46 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-to-day deaths are down, which is always good to see; newly reported cases are up again, though, which is not. In addition to the uptick in new cases, we have active cases up again, percent-positive up again, hospitalization counts all up again and all the seven-day averages either up or steady. Not to mention that the seven-day averages for cases, deaths and percent positive are all worse than they were two weeks ago.
At least I'm not the only one (a) noticing the upward case trends in Massachusetts and (b) wondering WTF the governor is up to. The front page of today's Boston Globe is full of warnings from epidemiologists:
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I gather the Globe couldn't get any direct comment from Governor Baker for that story (they did get a statement from the press secretary). So far, though, Baker seems to have decided that a daily incidence rate over 30 new cases per 100k population (per today's dashboard at https://www.covidactnow.org/) is a splendid thing to have, well worth reopening the TD Garden to fans. I disagree; but then, nobody elected me governor.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 22 active and 832 cumulative cases as of March 24, 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.
Day-to-day deaths are down, which is always good to see; newly reported cases are up again, though, which is not. In addition to the uptick in new cases, we have active cases up again, percent-positive up again, hospitalization counts all up again and all the seven-day averages either up or steady. Not to mention that the seven-day averages for cases, deaths and percent positive are all worse than they were two weeks ago.
At least I'm not the only one (a) noticing the upward case trends in Massachusetts and (b) wondering WTF the governor is up to. The front page of today's Boston Globe is full of warnings from epidemiologists:
( Read more... )
I gather the Globe couldn't get any direct comment from Governor Baker for that story (they did get a statement from the press secretary). So far, though, Baker seems to have decided that a daily incidence rate over 30 new cases per 100k population (per today's dashboard at https://www.covidactnow.org/) is a splendid thing to have, well worth reopening the TD Garden to fans. I disagree; but then, nobody elected me governor.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 22 active and 832 cumulative cases as of March 24, 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.