( Wall-o-text )Day-to-day trends ... aren't good. Newly reported deaths held steady, but cases were up a bunch, as were hospitalizations. Seven-day averages for cases and hospitalizations are at their Lowest Observed Values, while that for deaths held steady; however, the average for percent-positive ticked upward again. Also not good: even though the seven-day average for cases is at the LOV, that LOV went up again. The combination of an upward creep in case counts with a similar upward trend in percent-positive is worrisome.
Don't get me wrong; the absolute numbers continue to look great, there isn't a city or town in the state with enough cases to merit even a yellow risk code (if the state was still reporting those), and a 14-day daily incidence average of 1.0 per 100k population is great news. But the seven-day averages for both cases and percent-positive are higher than they were two weeks ago, and that's not a promising trend.
The town of Acton's current
Google Data Studio dashboard is showing zero active and 981 cumulative cases as of July 7. There have been no new cases shown on this dashboard since June 2, over a month ago. 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.
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