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Local COVID-19 updates
Apr. 7th, 2021 07:02 pmThe state changed the raw data file format again today, and again it broke my loader software. It was a fairly straightforward fix; they're now breaking out the weekly case numbers by age for kids into four age groups (0-4 years old, 5-9, 10-14, and 15-19). It's not a data point I've been tracking, but there's other information in that sheet that I was using and thus my loader had to care that the format changed.
( Wall-o-text, and the state hit 17k deaths today )
The day-to-day changes are mostly bad. Deaths, cases, estimated active cases, and hospitalizations are all up, along with the seven-day average hospitalization count; on the other hand, the seven-day averages for cases and percent-positive are both (slightly) down. Longer-term trends continue mostly bad, and the 14-day incidence rate is unsurprisingly up again.
Meanwhile, Governor Charlie Baker keeps talking about vaccinations, with emphasis on how much the Federal government is controlling both availability and distribution (by pushing so much through retail pharmacies:
( Read more... )
Alas, no mention of rising case counts. Typically, more cases eventually turns into more hospitalizations, and then into more deaths; we'll just have to see if the big vaccination push has changed that calculus.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 41 active and 894 cumulative cases as of April 7. The corresponding values for April 6 were 34 current and 882 cumulative cases. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 1:30PM on April 3, 2021 reported 871 cumulative cases with 38 individuals in isolation, 801 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.
( Wall-o-text, and the state hit 17k deaths today )
The day-to-day changes are mostly bad. Deaths, cases, estimated active cases, and hospitalizations are all up, along with the seven-day average hospitalization count; on the other hand, the seven-day averages for cases and percent-positive are both (slightly) down. Longer-term trends continue mostly bad, and the 14-day incidence rate is unsurprisingly up again.
Meanwhile, Governor Charlie Baker keeps talking about vaccinations, with emphasis on how much the Federal government is controlling both availability and distribution (by pushing so much through retail pharmacies:
( Read more... )
Alas, no mention of rising case counts. Typically, more cases eventually turns into more hospitalizations, and then into more deaths; we'll just have to see if the big vaccination push has changed that calculus.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 41 active and 894 cumulative cases as of April 7. The corresponding values for April 6 were 34 current and 882 cumulative cases. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 1:30PM on April 3, 2021 reported 871 cumulative cases with 38 individuals in isolation, 801 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.