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Local COVID-19 updates
Sep. 9th, 2021 05:28 pm( Wall-o-text )
This is ... fucking awful. No two ways around it. Day-over-day deaths are up and day-over-day cases are way, way up. Today's 18 newly reported deaths are the highest single-day total since May 17. Today's 2,096 newly reported cases are the first time that number has been over two thousand for a single day's report since April 14, and is the highest single-day total since April 10. Hospitalizations held steady, as did the seven-day averages for deaths and hospitalizations; however, the averages for cases and percent-positive are both up. Meanwhile, the number of cities and towns that would qualify for the state's highest risk category (assuming, of course, that Governor Charlie Baker gave a rat's ass) is up yet again, to fifty.
At the moment, the folks at Covid Act Now are showing both Middlesex County and Massachusetts statewide as being in their "high" risk level, which is actually doing well compared with most of the nation (which is either bright red "very high" or bleeding red "severe"). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are showing Middlesex County as having "high" community transmission (again, like most of the nation).
As I'm typing, President Biden is announcing new vaccination requirements. More on those later. Oh, if only Governor Baker was equally willing to get off his butt and take any sort of action.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 28 active and 1,086 cumulative cases as of September 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.
This is ... fucking awful. No two ways around it. Day-over-day deaths are up and day-over-day cases are way, way up. Today's 18 newly reported deaths are the highest single-day total since May 17. Today's 2,096 newly reported cases are the first time that number has been over two thousand for a single day's report since April 14, and is the highest single-day total since April 10. Hospitalizations held steady, as did the seven-day averages for deaths and hospitalizations; however, the averages for cases and percent-positive are both up. Meanwhile, the number of cities and towns that would qualify for the state's highest risk category (assuming, of course, that Governor Charlie Baker gave a rat's ass) is up yet again, to fifty.
At the moment, the folks at Covid Act Now are showing both Middlesex County and Massachusetts statewide as being in their "high" risk level, which is actually doing well compared with most of the nation (which is either bright red "very high" or bleeding red "severe"). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are showing Middlesex County as having "high" community transmission (again, like most of the nation).
As I'm typing, President Biden is announcing new vaccination requirements. More on those later. Oh, if only Governor Baker was equally willing to get off his butt and take any sort of action.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 28 active and 1,086 cumulative cases as of September 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.