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Local COVID-19 updates
Apr. 14th, 2021 05:35 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-to-day changes are mixed; deaths and cases are both up, but estimated active cases, percent-positive and hospitalizations are all down. The seven-day averages are mostly down day-to-day as well. In somewhat more hopeful news, the seven-day average for deaths, cases and percent-positive are all below where they were two weeks ago, and the fourteen-day average daily incidence rate is down for the first time since March 17.
We are still looking at (IMHO) way too high a case rate to be in the fourth phase ("the new normal") of the state reopening plan, but at least we're not in the horrible position that Michigan is. Per https://www.covidactnow.org, Michigan now has a seven-day incidence rate of 78.7 daily new cases per 100k population, worse in the country by far, and "earning" the dubious distinction of the only state in the burnt-red "severe risk" category. By comparison, Massachusetts has "merely" 30.4 daily new cases per 100k population, eleventh worst in the nation but solidly in the "very high risk" category (along with thirteen other states and Puerto Rico).
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 35 active and 922 cumulative cases as of April 14. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 4:45PM on April 13, 2021 reported 914 cumulative cases with 30 individuals in isolation, 852 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.
Day-to-day changes are mixed; deaths and cases are both up, but estimated active cases, percent-positive and hospitalizations are all down. The seven-day averages are mostly down day-to-day as well. In somewhat more hopeful news, the seven-day average for deaths, cases and percent-positive are all below where they were two weeks ago, and the fourteen-day average daily incidence rate is down for the first time since March 17.
We are still looking at (IMHO) way too high a case rate to be in the fourth phase ("the new normal") of the state reopening plan, but at least we're not in the horrible position that Michigan is. Per https://www.covidactnow.org, Michigan now has a seven-day incidence rate of 78.7 daily new cases per 100k population, worse in the country by far, and "earning" the dubious distinction of the only state in the burnt-red "severe risk" category. By comparison, Massachusetts has "merely" 30.4 daily new cases per 100k population, eleventh worst in the nation but solidly in the "very high risk" category (along with thirteen other states and Puerto Rico).
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 35 active and 922 cumulative cases as of April 14. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 4:45PM on April 13, 2021 reported 914 cumulative cases with 30 individuals in isolation, 852 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.