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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Sep. 10th, 2021 07:50 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-over-day cases dropped, but hospitalizations rose and deaths held steady. Similarly, the seven-day averages for cases dropped, but those for deaths, hospitalizations and percent-positive are all up compared to yesterday. Not great news overall, and the upcoming weekend means no more data until Monday.
I haven't seen the details of President Biden's newly announced "action plan" regarding COVID-19; presumably because the underlying federal rules are still being written. Some of the key points will probably include a requirement that large employers (over 100 employees) must either require vaccinations or weekly testing for all employees, along with a requirement that federal workers and contractors get vaccinated (without the weekly testing option). Local reaction is mostly positive:
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From my perspective, it's about time. I don't see any way out of this pandemic that doesn't involve near-universal vaccinations, and clearly there are way too many unvaccinated people in this country. Presumably the number of folks who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons is a small enough pool that we can knock off COVID with them still vulnerable; however, that does mean the "don't-wannas" are going to have to suck it up. I'm guessing (and hoping) that the feds requiring vaccination for a big chunk of the population will convince most of those "don't-wannas" to get their shots.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 26 active and 1,087 cumulative cases as of September 9. 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.
Day-over-day cases dropped, but hospitalizations rose and deaths held steady. Similarly, the seven-day averages for cases dropped, but those for deaths, hospitalizations and percent-positive are all up compared to yesterday. Not great news overall, and the upcoming weekend means no more data until Monday.
I haven't seen the details of President Biden's newly announced "action plan" regarding COVID-19; presumably because the underlying federal rules are still being written. Some of the key points will probably include a requirement that large employers (over 100 employees) must either require vaccinations or weekly testing for all employees, along with a requirement that federal workers and contractors get vaccinated (without the weekly testing option). Local reaction is mostly positive:
( Read more... )
From my perspective, it's about time. I don't see any way out of this pandemic that doesn't involve near-universal vaccinations, and clearly there are way too many unvaccinated people in this country. Presumably the number of folks who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons is a small enough pool that we can knock off COVID with them still vulnerable; however, that does mean the "don't-wannas" are going to have to suck it up. I'm guessing (and hoping) that the feds requiring vaccination for a big chunk of the population will convince most of those "don't-wannas" to get their shots.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 26 active and 1,087 cumulative cases as of September 9. 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.