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Local COVID-19 updates
( Wall-o-text - 20 million tests, 59 high-risk towns )
Most of the day-to-day changes are for the good: deaths and cases down, positivity down, estimated active cases down, hospitalizations down. ICU and intubation counts are up slightly, which isn't so good. All the seven-day averages are down compared to yesterday, which is always nice to see; three of those four averages (deaths, cases, and percent-positive) are also down compared to two weeks ago, which is even better.
The city and town data isn't so great for my town, which continues to see rising cases, daily incidence and percent-positive numbers. This has been going on all month, and is not what I call good local news. Today, Acton is reporting 17.8 daily cases per 100k population and 2.82% test positivity; on March 25, the town was reporting 7.8 daily cases per 100k population and 1.26% test positivity. On a statewide level, there was a slight drop in the daily incidence rate (still too high at 27.4) and a drop in the number of high-risk communities (from 77 last week to 59 this week).
One milestone worth noting: Massachusetts has broken the twenty-million-test mark, with 20,045,384 total tests as of Wednesday. (I missed seeing that yesterday; my apologies.)
Meanwhile, the state is about to change how it reports COVID-19 deaths in long-term care facilities, which will result in the total reported deaths dropping by 1,200:
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This apparently only affects the COVID-19 Weekly Public Health Report; the total number of deaths on the daily dashboard won't be impacted, and thus neither will the stuff I report here.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 38 active and 927 cumulative cases as of April 15. 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.
Most of the day-to-day changes are for the good: deaths and cases down, positivity down, estimated active cases down, hospitalizations down. ICU and intubation counts are up slightly, which isn't so good. All the seven-day averages are down compared to yesterday, which is always nice to see; three of those four averages (deaths, cases, and percent-positive) are also down compared to two weeks ago, which is even better.
The city and town data isn't so great for my town, which continues to see rising cases, daily incidence and percent-positive numbers. This has been going on all month, and is not what I call good local news. Today, Acton is reporting 17.8 daily cases per 100k population and 2.82% test positivity; on March 25, the town was reporting 7.8 daily cases per 100k population and 1.26% test positivity. On a statewide level, there was a slight drop in the daily incidence rate (still too high at 27.4) and a drop in the number of high-risk communities (from 77 last week to 59 this week).
One milestone worth noting: Massachusetts has broken the twenty-million-test mark, with 20,045,384 total tests as of Wednesday. (I missed seeing that yesterday; my apologies.)
Meanwhile, the state is about to change how it reports COVID-19 deaths in long-term care facilities, which will result in the total reported deaths dropping by 1,200:
( Read more... )
This apparently only affects the COVID-19 Weekly Public Health Report; the total number of deaths on the daily dashboard won't be impacted, and thus neither will the stuff I report here.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 38 active and 927 cumulative cases as of April 15. 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.