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Local COVID-19 updates
Aug. 20th, 2021 05:41 pm( Wall-o-text )
More yuck today, as deaths, cases and hospitalizations are all up day-over-day; in fact, the 1,459 newly reported cases is the highest such single-day count since April 17 (when the state reported 1,694), while the 467 COVID-19 patients in hospital is the highest that metric has been since May 6 (when the state reported 469). The seven-day averages for deaths held steady, but those for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive all ticked upward again. Overall, a distinct lack of encouraging information.
The state has now added the count of persons currently hospitalized with COVID who "were known to be fully vaccinated at the time that they contracted COVID-19"; currently, 140 of 467 patients (30.0%) fall into that category. Massachusetts currently is sitting at about 65% of the population being fully vaccinated (according to the latest stats from Covid Act Now), so clearly vaccines cut down on hospitalizations; equally clearly, breakthrough infections are still happening, and some of them can be serious enough to require hospitalization.
Why is Massachusetts seeing more breakthrough infections? The delta variant is nastier, and there's some evidence that the effectiveness of the existing vaccines wanes over time:
( Read more... )
Oh, yay. Need to keep masking up, folks. (And if you haven't gotten the shots yet, get cracking!)
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 21 active and 1,041 cumulative cases as of August 18. 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.
More yuck today, as deaths, cases and hospitalizations are all up day-over-day; in fact, the 1,459 newly reported cases is the highest such single-day count since April 17 (when the state reported 1,694), while the 467 COVID-19 patients in hospital is the highest that metric has been since May 6 (when the state reported 469). The seven-day averages for deaths held steady, but those for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive all ticked upward again. Overall, a distinct lack of encouraging information.
The state has now added the count of persons currently hospitalized with COVID who "were known to be fully vaccinated at the time that they contracted COVID-19"; currently, 140 of 467 patients (30.0%) fall into that category. Massachusetts currently is sitting at about 65% of the population being fully vaccinated (according to the latest stats from Covid Act Now), so clearly vaccines cut down on hospitalizations; equally clearly, breakthrough infections are still happening, and some of them can be serious enough to require hospitalization.
Why is Massachusetts seeing more breakthrough infections? The delta variant is nastier, and there's some evidence that the effectiveness of the existing vaccines wanes over time:
( Read more... )
Oh, yay. Need to keep masking up, folks. (And if you haven't gotten the shots yet, get cracking!)
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 21 active and 1,041 cumulative cases as of August 18. 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.