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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Oct. 21st, 2021 10:36 pm( Wall-o-text )
Day-over-day changes are ... mixed, let's say. Deaths are up a lot but cases and hospitalizations are both down a bit. The seven-day averages for cases and hospitalizations are both down, but those for deaths and percent-positive are both up. At least all the seven-day averages are (barely) below their values two weeks ago, but that isn't really any sort of obvious progress.
Also a mixed bag: the weekly city and town numbers. The counts of the lowest-risk communities (grey and green, under the old color coding) are both down; the count of the highest-risk communities are also down (four less this week than last), but the count of the "moderate" risk communities is up by fifteen.
Not a mixed bag: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now say Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients are now eligible for booster vaccinations:
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The CDC's page on booster shots is currently still dated October 7 and hasn't yet been updated to reflect this guidance; neither has the Massachusetts vaxfinder.mass.gov site. OTOH, the CDC list of underlying medical conditions certainly still includes me. So I know something I'll be doing in the near future ...
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 10 active and 1,177 cumulative cases as of October 20. 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 changes are ... mixed, let's say. Deaths are up a lot but cases and hospitalizations are both down a bit. The seven-day averages for cases and hospitalizations are both down, but those for deaths and percent-positive are both up. At least all the seven-day averages are (barely) below their values two weeks ago, but that isn't really any sort of obvious progress.
Also a mixed bag: the weekly city and town numbers. The counts of the lowest-risk communities (grey and green, under the old color coding) are both down; the count of the highest-risk communities are also down (four less this week than last), but the count of the "moderate" risk communities is up by fifteen.
Not a mixed bag: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now say Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients are now eligible for booster vaccinations:
( Read more... )
The CDC's page on booster shots is currently still dated October 7 and hasn't yet been updated to reflect this guidance; neither has the Massachusetts vaxfinder.mass.gov site. OTOH, the CDC list of underlying medical conditions certainly still includes me. So I know something I'll be doing in the near future ...
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 10 active and 1,177 cumulative cases as of October 20. 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.