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Local COVID-19 updates
Aug. 3rd, 2021 05:44 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-over-day comparisons are tricky, as yesterday's report covered three days of data; however, today's newly reported cases are substantially higher than yesterday's report (when split across three days), so that's unhappy. Worse, hospitalizations keep going up, and the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive also keep going up. The only good news is that the hospitalizations are going up much slower than the cases are, which hopefully means the vaccines are working as advertised to prevent serious illness.
Meanwhile, despite guidance to the contrary from both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Governor Charlie Baker is Just Saying No to school mask mandates:
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Today, my town of Acton released "Updated Guidance" on the pandemic:
( Read more... )
I note in particular that the town has yet to see any cases of the delta variant. Meanwhile, Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 5 active and 1,001 cumulative cases as of August 2. 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-over-day comparisons are tricky, as yesterday's report covered three days of data; however, today's newly reported cases are substantially higher than yesterday's report (when split across three days), so that's unhappy. Worse, hospitalizations keep going up, and the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive also keep going up. The only good news is that the hospitalizations are going up much slower than the cases are, which hopefully means the vaccines are working as advertised to prevent serious illness.
Meanwhile, despite guidance to the contrary from both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Governor Charlie Baker is Just Saying No to school mask mandates:
( Read more... )
Today, my town of Acton released "Updated Guidance" on the pandemic:
( Read more... )
I note in particular that the town has yet to see any cases of the delta variant. Meanwhile, Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 5 active and 1,001 cumulative cases as of August 2. 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.