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Local COVID-19 updates
( Wall-o-text; down to 48 high-risk communities this week )
Day-to-day changes are somewhat mixed today; deaths and cases are up, but estimated active cases and total hospitalizations are down, as are the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive. More encouragingly, all four seven-day averages are now well below their values from two weeks ago.
The city/town specific numbers are more encouraging. My town of Acton is still in the yellow category (we were in the green at the beginning of the month), but at least our numbers are trending downward. The state is down to 48 high-risk communities (from 59 last week), and the statewide daily incidence rate and percent-positive rate are both down from the previous week's values. (For some reason, the state is no longer providing a state-level color code in its raw data file; the daily incidence rate of 24.7 and percent-positive rate of 2.30 would correspond to a color code of yellow.)
Another bit of good news: Massachusetts has moved out of the red "very high risk" category at https://www.covidactnow.org/, with a seven-day daily incidence rate of 24.5 daily cases per 100k population. Now, we're merely "high risk" (the breakpoint is 25.0). Still, it's progress.
Some public health experts are seeing encouraging signs in the state's data:
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The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 26 active and 945 cumulative cases as of April 22. 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 somewhat mixed today; deaths and cases are up, but estimated active cases and total hospitalizations are down, as are the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive. More encouragingly, all four seven-day averages are now well below their values from two weeks ago.
The city/town specific numbers are more encouraging. My town of Acton is still in the yellow category (we were in the green at the beginning of the month), but at least our numbers are trending downward. The state is down to 48 high-risk communities (from 59 last week), and the statewide daily incidence rate and percent-positive rate are both down from the previous week's values. (For some reason, the state is no longer providing a state-level color code in its raw data file; the daily incidence rate of 24.7 and percent-positive rate of 2.30 would correspond to a color code of yellow.)
Another bit of good news: Massachusetts has moved out of the red "very high risk" category at https://www.covidactnow.org/, with a seven-day daily incidence rate of 24.5 daily cases per 100k population. Now, we're merely "high risk" (the breakpoint is 25.0). Still, it's progress.
Some public health experts are seeing encouraging signs in the state's data:
( Read more... )
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 26 active and 945 cumulative cases as of April 22. 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.