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Local COVID-19 updates
May. 24th, 2021 05:44 pm( Wall-o-text, and we're down below 10k active cases! )
The day-to-day changes are mixed. Deaths are down, and that's definitely good. Cases are down, but tests are proportionately even more down, so the cases drop may well be due to weekend reporting lags. The hospitalization count is up slightly, which isn't good. Three of the seven-day averages are down, which is definitely good; the seven-day deaths average, oddly, hasn't been updated in the raw data file since the May 21 value of 7.86, so I don't know what's going on there.
But there's one particuarly good milestone that the state reached today: the estimated active case count of 9,804 is below ten thousand cases for the first time since they started reporting the figure. That's progress.
Massachusetts is expanding its homebound resident vaccination drive to cover everyone confined at home, effective today:
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About damn time, in my not particularly humble opinion. Yes, the big mass vaccination sites got lots of shots in lots of arms (mine included). But a no-questions-asked program reaching out to folks who, for whatever reason, couldn't navigate the clusterfuck of the state's "system" should have been part of the plan from day one.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 2 active and 977 cumulative cases as of May 23. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 12PM on May 17, 2021 reported 975 cumulative cases with 6 individuals in isolation, 937 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.
The day-to-day changes are mixed. Deaths are down, and that's definitely good. Cases are down, but tests are proportionately even more down, so the cases drop may well be due to weekend reporting lags. The hospitalization count is up slightly, which isn't good. Three of the seven-day averages are down, which is definitely good; the seven-day deaths average, oddly, hasn't been updated in the raw data file since the May 21 value of 7.86, so I don't know what's going on there.
But there's one particuarly good milestone that the state reached today: the estimated active case count of 9,804 is below ten thousand cases for the first time since they started reporting the figure. That's progress.
Massachusetts is expanding its homebound resident vaccination drive to cover everyone confined at home, effective today:
( Read more... )
About damn time, in my not particularly humble opinion. Yes, the big mass vaccination sites got lots of shots in lots of arms (mine included). But a no-questions-asked program reaching out to folks who, for whatever reason, couldn't navigate the clusterfuck of the state's "system" should have been part of the plan from day one.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 2 active and 977 cumulative cases as of May 23. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 12PM on May 17, 2021 reported 975 cumulative cases with 6 individuals in isolation, 937 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.