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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Jul. 26th, 2021 06:00 pm( Wall-o-text )
Today's results are ... not as bad as I'd feared, to be honest. Since today's report covers a three day span (courtesy of the state no longer being arsed to provide weekend updates), and since we're clearly in the start of another surge of cases, it's not surprising that the raw totals for deaths, cases and tests are all up. On the other hand, averaging those raw totals over the three days of reporting shows a lower per-day average than Friday's report for all three. On the gripping hand, weekend reporting to the state has frequently been ... less than timely, shall we say? So tomorrow's report may well seem catastrophic, by comparison. In further bad news, the hospitalization totals keep going up, as do all four seven-day averages.
However, "not as bad as I'd feared" is a long, long way from "good". Cases are still way up from their late-June lows, and hospitalizations are still up far too much from their lows of early July. It's true that cases are climbing faster than hospitalizations; as noted above, the seven-day new cases average is almost five hundred percent higher than its Lowest Obvserved Value, while the hospitalization averge is only forty percent higher. To the extent that shows the vaccines doing their job of preventing serious disease among the vaccinated, that's good news. However, the state isn't yet breaking these statistics by vaccination status, and there is an expected time lag from infection to hospitalization. So I can't tell yet whether this particular surge will end up with similar levels of health care overload as the previous ones did.
The front page of today's Boston Globe featured a stark warning from Dr. Anthony Fauci that the US is "going in the wrong direction" with respect to COVID-19:
( Read more... )
I'm personally back in the "wearing masks in public unless I know everyone around me is vaccinated" category, as irritating as they are, to protect everyone else as much as to protect my own fully-vaccinated butt.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 9 active and 992 cumulative cases as of July 25. 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.
Today's results are ... not as bad as I'd feared, to be honest. Since today's report covers a three day span (courtesy of the state no longer being arsed to provide weekend updates), and since we're clearly in the start of another surge of cases, it's not surprising that the raw totals for deaths, cases and tests are all up. On the other hand, averaging those raw totals over the three days of reporting shows a lower per-day average than Friday's report for all three. On the gripping hand, weekend reporting to the state has frequently been ... less than timely, shall we say? So tomorrow's report may well seem catastrophic, by comparison. In further bad news, the hospitalization totals keep going up, as do all four seven-day averages.
However, "not as bad as I'd feared" is a long, long way from "good". Cases are still way up from their late-June lows, and hospitalizations are still up far too much from their lows of early July. It's true that cases are climbing faster than hospitalizations; as noted above, the seven-day new cases average is almost five hundred percent higher than its Lowest Obvserved Value, while the hospitalization averge is only forty percent higher. To the extent that shows the vaccines doing their job of preventing serious disease among the vaccinated, that's good news. However, the state isn't yet breaking these statistics by vaccination status, and there is an expected time lag from infection to hospitalization. So I can't tell yet whether this particular surge will end up with similar levels of health care overload as the previous ones did.
The front page of today's Boston Globe featured a stark warning from Dr. Anthony Fauci that the US is "going in the wrong direction" with respect to COVID-19:
( Read more... )
I'm personally back in the "wearing masks in public unless I know everyone around me is vaccinated" category, as irritating as they are, to protect everyone else as much as to protect my own fully-vaccinated butt.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 9 active and 992 cumulative cases as of July 25. 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.