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Local COVID-19 updates
Aug. 23rd, 2021 07:22 pm( Wall-o-text )
Unsurprisingly (since today's report covers three days of data), the raw number of newly reported cases is up compared to Friday's report; happily, the raw number of newly reported deaths is actually down. Alas, the hospitalization count continues to grow. The seven-day averages for deaths and percent-positive both dropped compared to Friday; however, those for cases and for hospitalizations are both up.
It's finally official: the Food and Drug Administration has given full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine:
( Read more... )
Hopefully the full approval will reduce some of the vaccine hesitancy out there (although perhaps not among the diehard antivaxers). No word yet on when to expect the Moderna vaccine (the one in my arm) to get full approval.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 9 active and 1,041 cumulative cases as of August 22. 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.
Unsurprisingly (since today's report covers three days of data), the raw number of newly reported cases is up compared to Friday's report; happily, the raw number of newly reported deaths is actually down. Alas, the hospitalization count continues to grow. The seven-day averages for deaths and percent-positive both dropped compared to Friday; however, those for cases and for hospitalizations are both up.
It's finally official: the Food and Drug Administration has given full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine:
( Read more... )
Hopefully the full approval will reduce some of the vaccine hesitancy out there (although perhaps not among the diehard antivaxers). No word yet on when to expect the Moderna vaccine (the one in my arm) to get full approval.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 9 active and 1,041 cumulative cases as of August 22. 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.