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Local COVID-19 updates
Apr. 26th, 2021 05:21 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-to-day deaths are up (not good), tests are down (also not good), but cases are also down (good, with the caveat that we're coming off the weekend). Estimated active cases are up (not good), but hospitalizations are down, and the seven-day average percent-positive is down, as is the seven-day hospitalization average. The seven-day case average is up very slightly, and the seven-day deaths average remains at the lowest observed value. The seven-day averages are all lower than or equal to their corresponding values from two weeks ago, which is definitely good news.
One piece of news that isn't obviously COVID-related, but will probably have at least some impact on statistics going forward: the US Census Bureau announced today that Massachusetts' population went up over the past decade, and now sits at 7,029,917:
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Given that daily incidence statistics are based on cases per 100k population, and the population is higher than expected, there will (eventually) be a slight downtick in reported daily incidence numbers. At the moment, the folks at Covid Act Now are still using their old population estimate, and the state's daily incidence is 21.0 daily new cases per 100k population. Still too high, but trending in the right direction.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 17 active and 947 cumulative cases as of April 26. 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 deaths are up (not good), tests are down (also not good), but cases are also down (good, with the caveat that we're coming off the weekend). Estimated active cases are up (not good), but hospitalizations are down, and the seven-day average percent-positive is down, as is the seven-day hospitalization average. The seven-day case average is up very slightly, and the seven-day deaths average remains at the lowest observed value. The seven-day averages are all lower than or equal to their corresponding values from two weeks ago, which is definitely good news.
One piece of news that isn't obviously COVID-related, but will probably have at least some impact on statistics going forward: the US Census Bureau announced today that Massachusetts' population went up over the past decade, and now sits at 7,029,917:
( Read more... )
Given that daily incidence statistics are based on cases per 100k population, and the population is higher than expected, there will (eventually) be a slight downtick in reported daily incidence numbers. At the moment, the folks at Covid Act Now are still using their old population estimate, and the state's daily incidence is 21.0 daily new cases per 100k population. Still too high, but trending in the right direction.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 17 active and 947 cumulative cases as of April 26. 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.