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Local COVID-19 updates
Aug. 9th, 2021 05:30 pm( Wall-o-text )
I'm still trying to figure the best way to deal with these three-day weekend reports; on the one hand, reporting was usually lighter on the weekends anyway, on the other, three days of stuff is likely to be more than one day of stuff. So the daily death count ticked up a bit, while the daily case count went up a bunch, but maybe down compared to Friday (if you spread the numbers over three days). In clearly not so good news, though, the hospitalization counts are up again, as are all four seven-day averages.
The only bit of good news that I can see remains the death rate, which is both quite low and still mostly trending downward; this is presumably due to the very high vaccination rates here in Massachusetts. The state today reported a cumulative total of 100 breakthrough deaths so far, a tiny fraction of the eighteen-thousand-plus confirmed and probable deaths statewide:
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While there's no sign yet that Governor Charlie Baker is going to take any new action whatsoever regarding this current outbreak (except, perhaps, viewing with concern), the town of Belmont has reinstated an indoor mask mandate, effective as long as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention list Middlesex County as having either "substantial" or "high" transmission risk:
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As of now, the CDC is showing thirteen of the fourteen counties in Massachusetts as having either "high" (Berkshire, Hampden, Bristol, Suffolk, Dukes and Nantucket) or "substantial" (Franklin, Worcester, Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Barnstable) levels of community transmission; only Hampshire County, in the western part of the state, is at the "moderate" level (where the CDC is not currently recommending mask usage for all indoors).
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 10 active and 1,011 cumulative cases as of August 8. 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.
I'm still trying to figure the best way to deal with these three-day weekend reports; on the one hand, reporting was usually lighter on the weekends anyway, on the other, three days of stuff is likely to be more than one day of stuff. So the daily death count ticked up a bit, while the daily case count went up a bunch, but maybe down compared to Friday (if you spread the numbers over three days). In clearly not so good news, though, the hospitalization counts are up again, as are all four seven-day averages.
The only bit of good news that I can see remains the death rate, which is both quite low and still mostly trending downward; this is presumably due to the very high vaccination rates here in Massachusetts. The state today reported a cumulative total of 100 breakthrough deaths so far, a tiny fraction of the eighteen-thousand-plus confirmed and probable deaths statewide:
( Read more... )
While there's no sign yet that Governor Charlie Baker is going to take any new action whatsoever regarding this current outbreak (except, perhaps, viewing with concern), the town of Belmont has reinstated an indoor mask mandate, effective as long as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention list Middlesex County as having either "substantial" or "high" transmission risk:
( Read more... )
As of now, the CDC is showing thirteen of the fourteen counties in Massachusetts as having either "high" (Berkshire, Hampden, Bristol, Suffolk, Dukes and Nantucket) or "substantial" (Franklin, Worcester, Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Barnstable) levels of community transmission; only Hampshire County, in the western part of the state, is at the "moderate" level (where the CDC is not currently recommending mask usage for all indoors).
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 10 active and 1,011 cumulative cases as of August 8. 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.