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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Sep. 13th, 2021 05:55 pm( Wall-o-text )
I still haven't figured out a "good" way to do day-to-day comparisons with these multiple-day reports. On the one hand, the raw number of newly reported deaths is up slightly compared to Friday while the raw number of newly reported cases is up massively. On the other hand, today's numbers cover three days of data; averaging those totals over three days, the average number of newly reported deaths is down a lot compared to Friday while the average number of newly reported cases is down slightly. The hospitalization counts are also up compared to Friday, which bodes poorly. The seven-day averages for percent-positive are down, but those for deaths, cases and hospitalizations are all up, which bodes worse.
Just to make life even more fun, last week didn't have a Monday report (courtesy of the Labor Day weekend, which the state took off). There was, of course, a three-day report two weeks ago; compared to that, today's three-day numbers of newly reported deaths and cases were both higher. Overall, not particularly encouraging numbers.
At least Massachusetts isn't running short on ICU beds, unlike too many other states. The Boston Globe reprinted a story from the Washington Post about one man in Alabama whose local hospital couldn't treat his particular cardiac condition and tried to find an ICU bed for him - and had to call 43 separate hospitals in three states to find one, because every ICU was overwhelmed with COVID patients:
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Note that this guy didn't die of COVID, and it's not clear that having to be transported two hundred miles contributed to his death. But Alabama currently has one of the highest case rates in the nation (74.2 daily new cases per 100k population, according to Covid Act Now) and one of the worst vaccination rates (barely 51% of the state has had even one dose), along with a terrifyingly high 21.4% of all COVID tests coming back positive (which means those case counts are just about guaranteed to be undercounts). All that adds up to hospitals overwhelmed by COVID and unable to deal with all the other things that could possibly go wrong with people.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 15 active and 1,088 cumulative cases as of September 12. 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.
I still haven't figured out a "good" way to do day-to-day comparisons with these multiple-day reports. On the one hand, the raw number of newly reported deaths is up slightly compared to Friday while the raw number of newly reported cases is up massively. On the other hand, today's numbers cover three days of data; averaging those totals over three days, the average number of newly reported deaths is down a lot compared to Friday while the average number of newly reported cases is down slightly. The hospitalization counts are also up compared to Friday, which bodes poorly. The seven-day averages for percent-positive are down, but those for deaths, cases and hospitalizations are all up, which bodes worse.
Just to make life even more fun, last week didn't have a Monday report (courtesy of the Labor Day weekend, which the state took off). There was, of course, a three-day report two weeks ago; compared to that, today's three-day numbers of newly reported deaths and cases were both higher. Overall, not particularly encouraging numbers.
At least Massachusetts isn't running short on ICU beds, unlike too many other states. The Boston Globe reprinted a story from the Washington Post about one man in Alabama whose local hospital couldn't treat his particular cardiac condition and tried to find an ICU bed for him - and had to call 43 separate hospitals in three states to find one, because every ICU was overwhelmed with COVID patients:
( Read more... )
Note that this guy didn't die of COVID, and it's not clear that having to be transported two hundred miles contributed to his death. But Alabama currently has one of the highest case rates in the nation (74.2 daily new cases per 100k population, according to Covid Act Now) and one of the worst vaccination rates (barely 51% of the state has had even one dose), along with a terrifyingly high 21.4% of all COVID tests coming back positive (which means those case counts are just about guaranteed to be undercounts). All that adds up to hospitals overwhelmed by COVID and unable to deal with all the other things that could possibly go wrong with people.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 15 active and 1,088 cumulative cases as of September 12. 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.