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Local COVID-19 updates
Oct. 5th, 2021 06:22 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-to-day changes aren't that encouraging. Deaths are way up. Raw case counts are down, but yesterday's report covered three days; today's case counts are up noticably compared to yesterday's number averaged over three days. Hospitalizations are also up. The seven-day averages are a mixed bag; deaths, cases and hospitalizations are all down, but percent-positive is up.
The Boston Globe seems to think there are some encouraging trends in the state's data:
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That article was published before the Commonwealth released today's report (which was not, in my rather personal opinion, terribly encouraging). Granted, things are a lot better now than they have been at other times in this pandemic (like, say, this January). OTOH, things are also a lot worse now than a lot of times (like, say, this June).
Myself? Color me gloomy. Also color me masked up in public indoor spaces for the foreseeable future. And probably getting a booster if one for Moderna ends up approved.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 27 active and 1,151 cumulative cases as of October 4. 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-to-day changes aren't that encouraging. Deaths are way up. Raw case counts are down, but yesterday's report covered three days; today's case counts are up noticably compared to yesterday's number averaged over three days. Hospitalizations are also up. The seven-day averages are a mixed bag; deaths, cases and hospitalizations are all down, but percent-positive is up.
The Boston Globe seems to think there are some encouraging trends in the state's data:
( Read more... )
That article was published before the Commonwealth released today's report (which was not, in my rather personal opinion, terribly encouraging). Granted, things are a lot better now than they have been at other times in this pandemic (like, say, this January). OTOH, things are also a lot worse now than a lot of times (like, say, this June).
Myself? Color me gloomy. Also color me masked up in public indoor spaces for the foreseeable future. And probably getting a booster if one for Moderna ends up approved.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 27 active and 1,151 cumulative cases as of October 4. 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.