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Local COVID-19 updates
Jul. 23rd, 2021 06:04 pm( Wall-o-text )
Whee! Deaths are down slightly day-over-day, but cases? Waaay up. Hospitalizations are down (at least for the moment), but the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive are all up again. Today's 586 newly reported cases are the first time since May 20 that more than five hundred cases were reported on a single day. The folks at Covid Act Now are once again showing Massachusetts as having the highest infection rate (1.52) in the nation, and thus placing the state solidly in the red, "Very High Risk" category.
As near as I can tell, Governor Charlie Baker is in full "don't worry, be happy" mode about this surge, presumably because Massachusetts is such a leader in vaccinations. Right now, the expectation is that fully-vaccinated people are at extremely low risk of serious disease, and the focus should be on the risks to the unvaccinated. But what about those breakthrough infections?
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I really do hope the state adds breakthrough infection data to the dashboard. I personally want to see what the hell is going on, and I started doing these posts in large part because the state (at the time) wasn't reporting on trends. Even today, the absolute case numbers are still okay; what's scary is how fast those case counts are climbing. Now that we're seeing much more infectious variants emerge, it's even more important to know how effective the available vaccines are at handling said variants; publishing data on breakthrough infections is the best way I can think of to do that.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 9 active and 992 cumulative cases as of July 23. 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.
Whee! Deaths are down slightly day-over-day, but cases? Waaay up. Hospitalizations are down (at least for the moment), but the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive are all up again. Today's 586 newly reported cases are the first time since May 20 that more than five hundred cases were reported on a single day. The folks at Covid Act Now are once again showing Massachusetts as having the highest infection rate (1.52) in the nation, and thus placing the state solidly in the red, "Very High Risk" category.
As near as I can tell, Governor Charlie Baker is in full "don't worry, be happy" mode about this surge, presumably because Massachusetts is such a leader in vaccinations. Right now, the expectation is that fully-vaccinated people are at extremely low risk of serious disease, and the focus should be on the risks to the unvaccinated. But what about those breakthrough infections?
( Read more... )
I really do hope the state adds breakthrough infection data to the dashboard. I personally want to see what the hell is going on, and I started doing these posts in large part because the state (at the time) wasn't reporting on trends. Even today, the absolute case numbers are still okay; what's scary is how fast those case counts are climbing. Now that we're seeing much more infectious variants emerge, it's even more important to know how effective the available vaccines are at handling said variants; publishing data on breakthrough infections is the best way I can think of to do that.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 9 active and 992 cumulative cases as of July 23. 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.