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Local COVID-19 updates
Apr. 8th, 2021 05:42 pm( Wall-o-text - now up to 77 high-risk towns )
Day-to-day deaths and cases are both down for once, which is good; so are the hospitalization counts and most of the seven-day averages. On the other hand, the estimated active case total is up again, and the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive are all still above where they were two weeks ago; that's not good. Even worse, the weekly city and town numbers are showing seventy-seven communities in the high-risk category, up twenty-two from last week; this is the fourth week in a row where that number has grown. My own town of Acton has jumped from green last week to yellow this week, with nearly twice as many cases and a positivity rate that also nearly doubled.
Meanwhile, https://www.covidactnow.org/ now is showing Massachusetts as having the ninth-highest daily incidence rate in the US, at 31.1 daily new cases per 100k population. That's down from last week (Massachusetts was number 6 on March 30), but only because other states have gotten much worse. (Michigan is currently the worst-hit state, with 70.2 daily new cases per 100k population.)
Alas, there's no sign anywhere that I can see in the news that Governor Charlie Baker gives a good goddamn about rising cases.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 41 active and 894 cumulative cases as of April 7. 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.
Day-to-day deaths and cases are both down for once, which is good; so are the hospitalization counts and most of the seven-day averages. On the other hand, the estimated active case total is up again, and the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive are all still above where they were two weeks ago; that's not good. Even worse, the weekly city and town numbers are showing seventy-seven communities in the high-risk category, up twenty-two from last week; this is the fourth week in a row where that number has grown. My own town of Acton has jumped from green last week to yellow this week, with nearly twice as many cases and a positivity rate that also nearly doubled.
Meanwhile, https://www.covidactnow.org/ now is showing Massachusetts as having the ninth-highest daily incidence rate in the US, at 31.1 daily new cases per 100k population. That's down from last week (Massachusetts was number 6 on March 30), but only because other states have gotten much worse. (Michigan is currently the worst-hit state, with 70.2 daily new cases per 100k population.)
Alas, there's no sign anywhere that I can see in the news that Governor Charlie Baker gives a good goddamn about rising cases.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 41 active and 894 cumulative cases as of April 7. 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.