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Local COVID-19 updates
Aug. 17th, 2021 05:26 pm( Wall-o-text )
Compared to yesterday, newly reported deaths held steady while newly reported cases dropped. OTOH, yesterday's data covered three calendar days; compared to the per-day averages, newly reported deaths and cases are way up. That's not good. Neither is the continued increases in hospitalizations.
Last night, the Massachusetts Teachers Association (the largest public school teachers union in the Commonwealth) voted to support mandating vaccinations in public schools:
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Not that Governor Charlie Baker is in the least bit interested in mandating anything, if he can possibly avoid doing so, except in-person education. He's all for making sure kids are in classrooms (and thus freeing parents up to go back to in-person jobs).
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 10 active and 1,027 cumulative cases as of August 16. 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.
Compared to yesterday, newly reported deaths held steady while newly reported cases dropped. OTOH, yesterday's data covered three calendar days; compared to the per-day averages, newly reported deaths and cases are way up. That's not good. Neither is the continued increases in hospitalizations.
Last night, the Massachusetts Teachers Association (the largest public school teachers union in the Commonwealth) voted to support mandating vaccinations in public schools:
( Read more... )
Not that Governor Charlie Baker is in the least bit interested in mandating anything, if he can possibly avoid doing so, except in-person education. He's all for making sure kids are in classrooms (and thus freeing parents up to go back to in-person jobs).
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 10 active and 1,027 cumulative cases as of August 16. 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.