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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Jul. 22nd, 2021 05:51 pm( Wall-o-text, and Provincetown goes red )
Day-to-day changes continue to be bad. Deaths, cases and hospitalizations are all up from yesterday, as are all four seven-day averages. The absolute numbers are still rather low, but every single trendline I can see is going in the entirely wrong direction. Not to mention that, for the first time since May 27, the statewide city/town data would show a community in the highest-risk, red, category (Provincetown) - if the state were still making that calculation themselves, that is.
Based on the calculated infection rate, the folk at Covid Act Now have placed Massachusetts in the red, Very High Risk category. They have us at an infection rate of 1.51 (one newly infected person spreads to, on average, one and a half others), currently the highest in the nation. Only a month ago, the same folks had Massachusetts in the green, Low Risk category. This is not good.
Cambridge health officials announced yesterday that 42% of that city's 83 cases this month were "breakthrough" cases (persons who are fully vaccinated, yet caught COVID anyway):
( Read more... )
Not that Governor Baker intends to do a damn thing about anything:
( Read more... )
Great. The state has the opportunity to nip this latest outbreak in the bud, and the Governor doesn't give a damn.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 9 active and 990 cumulative cases as of July 21. 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 changes continue to be bad. Deaths, cases and hospitalizations are all up from yesterday, as are all four seven-day averages. The absolute numbers are still rather low, but every single trendline I can see is going in the entirely wrong direction. Not to mention that, for the first time since May 27, the statewide city/town data would show a community in the highest-risk, red, category (Provincetown) - if the state were still making that calculation themselves, that is.
Based on the calculated infection rate, the folk at Covid Act Now have placed Massachusetts in the red, Very High Risk category. They have us at an infection rate of 1.51 (one newly infected person spreads to, on average, one and a half others), currently the highest in the nation. Only a month ago, the same folks had Massachusetts in the green, Low Risk category. This is not good.
Cambridge health officials announced yesterday that 42% of that city's 83 cases this month were "breakthrough" cases (persons who are fully vaccinated, yet caught COVID anyway):
( Read more... )
Not that Governor Baker intends to do a damn thing about anything:
( Read more... )
Great. The state has the opportunity to nip this latest outbreak in the bud, and the Governor doesn't give a damn.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 9 active and 990 cumulative cases as of July 21. 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.