Further adventures in vaccination

I got my second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine this morning.

There was even less drama than the first shot, as I now knew exactly how to get to the correct parking lot at Gillette Stadium. No lines at all; just walked right in once it was my time, got the shot and the updated card, got the "I got vaccinated" button, sat around for the prescribed fifteen minutes, took the selfie, and headed back out. Easy-peasy.

I didn't have any noticeable side effects from the first shot, and hope to have the same this time; but I did make sure to have a full larder and an empty calendar for the next couple of days, just in case.

This is a huge relief, getting this done. This pandemic has sucked; but now I can be sure I will neither die from this damn virus nor kill off someone I care for therewith, and that makes me feel so much better.

Local COVID-19 updates

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Well, foo. Deaths and cases up day-to-day; the overall positivity rate is down slightly, but it's up slightly once the college students are factored out. Estimated active cases are up again, but at least hospitalizations are down. The fourteen-day daily incidence is way up; and the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive are still well above where they were two weeks ago. Overall, really not good news.

So far, all Governor Baker wants to talk about are vaccinations. Which, to be fair, are picking up pace as President Biden's administration is getting more and more doses shipped, both directly to states and to major pharmacy chains. But it makes no sense (to me, at least) to be moving forward with reopening plans while case rates climb and more-infections variants spread.

The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 15 active and 842 cumulative cases as of March 29, and 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.