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Local COVID-19 updates
Jul. 30th, 2021 05:24 pm( Wall-o-text )
An at-best-mixed bag of day-to-day changes. Newly reported deaths are down, but newly reported cases are up a bunch while newly reported tests are down a bit. Hospitalizations are also up a bunch, and all the seven-day averages went up again. Today's 844 newly reported cases are the highest single-day total since 881 cases were reported on May 7, while the seven-day percent-positivity average rose above 2.0% for the first time since April 23.
Governor Charlie Baker's adminstration is sort of doing something about this latest surge - a new mask advisory:
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On the other hand, the Boston Globe's Editorial Board wants to see more forceful leadership from Governor Baker:
( Read more... )
Baker should show some leadership here. I'm not going to hold my breath that he will, though.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 6 active and 1,000 cumulative cases as of July 30. 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.
An at-best-mixed bag of day-to-day changes. Newly reported deaths are down, but newly reported cases are up a bunch while newly reported tests are down a bit. Hospitalizations are also up a bunch, and all the seven-day averages went up again. Today's 844 newly reported cases are the highest single-day total since 881 cases were reported on May 7, while the seven-day percent-positivity average rose above 2.0% for the first time since April 23.
Governor Charlie Baker's adminstration is sort of doing something about this latest surge - a new mask advisory:
( Read more... )
On the other hand, the Boston Globe's Editorial Board wants to see more forceful leadership from Governor Baker:
( Read more... )
Baker should show some leadership here. I'm not going to hold my breath that he will, though.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 6 active and 1,000 cumulative cases as of July 30. 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.