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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Jun. 23rd, 2021 05:38 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-to-day newly reported deaths and cases are both up, but are also both still very low. Both the estimated active case count and the total COVID-19 patients in hospital count are not only down day-to-day but set new lows; the hospitalization count is below 100 for the first time since the state started reporting this number. All four seven-day averages are, once again, at their Lowest Observed Value.
The long-term downward trend in new cases is showing up in the fourteen-day average daily incidence, which at 1.2 average new daily confirmed cases per 100k population is the lowest it's been since the state started reporting that calculation back in October of 2020. The good folks at Covid Act Now, who use a seven-day average daily incidence per 100k population as one of the inputs to their risk coding, have Massachusetts at 1.0 daily new cases per 100k, good enough for a green, "low risk" coding (for the first time since the pandemic started). Only Vermont and the Mariana Islands have lower rates; Maryland is tied with Massachusetts.
So at the moment, things are looking pretty good locally. Nationally, though, six states (Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico) have rising infection rates and below-average vaccination rates. Worse, the Delta variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus is rapidly growing in proportion nationwide:
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More transmissible and more dangerous - unless you're fully vaccinated. Get your damn shot(s) ASAP, folks! (Assuming said shot(s) are available in your area, that is; I know other nations have much poorer vaccine availibility.)
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing zero active and 981 cumulative cases as of June 22. There have been no new cases shown on this dashboard since June 2. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 11:45AM on May 28, 2021 reported 978 cumulative cases with 3 individuals in isolation, 943 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.
Day-to-day newly reported deaths and cases are both up, but are also both still very low. Both the estimated active case count and the total COVID-19 patients in hospital count are not only down day-to-day but set new lows; the hospitalization count is below 100 for the first time since the state started reporting this number. All four seven-day averages are, once again, at their Lowest Observed Value.
The long-term downward trend in new cases is showing up in the fourteen-day average daily incidence, which at 1.2 average new daily confirmed cases per 100k population is the lowest it's been since the state started reporting that calculation back in October of 2020. The good folks at Covid Act Now, who use a seven-day average daily incidence per 100k population as one of the inputs to their risk coding, have Massachusetts at 1.0 daily new cases per 100k, good enough for a green, "low risk" coding (for the first time since the pandemic started). Only Vermont and the Mariana Islands have lower rates; Maryland is tied with Massachusetts.
So at the moment, things are looking pretty good locally. Nationally, though, six states (Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico) have rising infection rates and below-average vaccination rates. Worse, the Delta variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus is rapidly growing in proportion nationwide:
( Read more... )
More transmissible and more dangerous - unless you're fully vaccinated. Get your damn shot(s) ASAP, folks! (Assuming said shot(s) are available in your area, that is; I know other nations have much poorer vaccine availibility.)
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing zero active and 981 cumulative cases as of June 22. There have been no new cases shown on this dashboard since June 2. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 11:45AM on May 28, 2021 reported 978 cumulative cases with 3 individuals in isolation, 943 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.