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Local COVID-19 updates
Jul. 21st, 2021 06:17 pm( Wall-o-text )
The day-over-day changes continue to be mostly for the much worse. Deaths were down, which is always a good sign; however, deaths are very much a trailing indicator of the pandemic's status, and this most recent surge appears to have started in late June. Newly reported confirmed cases are up, as are hospitalizations; neither of these are good news. And, again, all four seven-day averages are now substantially above their Lowest Observed Values and are trending upward. The good folks at Covid Act Now currently have Massachusetts at a High risk level, based on their calculations that one infected person in the state is passing the virus along to an average of 1.33 other people.
I haven't heard any official word yet from the state about reinstating mask mandates or other non-pharmaceutical interventions. And I fully understand why nobody wants to go down that route. But Massachusetts has one of the best vaccination rates overall nationwide, and that's not stopping this latest surge. I'm masking up again in indoor public places, as irritating as it is. And I fully expect mandates sooner rather than later.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 6 active and 987 cumulative cases as of July 20. 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.
The day-over-day changes continue to be mostly for the much worse. Deaths were down, which is always a good sign; however, deaths are very much a trailing indicator of the pandemic's status, and this most recent surge appears to have started in late June. Newly reported confirmed cases are up, as are hospitalizations; neither of these are good news. And, again, all four seven-day averages are now substantially above their Lowest Observed Values and are trending upward. The good folks at Covid Act Now currently have Massachusetts at a High risk level, based on their calculations that one infected person in the state is passing the virus along to an average of 1.33 other people.
I haven't heard any official word yet from the state about reinstating mask mandates or other non-pharmaceutical interventions. And I fully understand why nobody wants to go down that route. But Massachusetts has one of the best vaccination rates overall nationwide, and that's not stopping this latest surge. I'm masking up again in indoor public places, as irritating as it is. And I fully expect mandates sooner rather than later.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 6 active and 987 cumulative cases as of July 20. 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.