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Local COVID-19 updates
Nov. 1st, 2021 06:10 pmAnother Monday, another three-day report. Any good news?
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Arrgh. The day-over-day comparisons aren't terrible, with newly reported deaths down in absolute terms and newly reported cases down if you take the average of the three days of data that today's report covers. Hospitalizations ticked up slightly, but percent-positive is down a bit.
On the other hand, the absolute values still stink. We're still seeing over a thousand newly reported cases every day, even with weekend reporting wonkiness, which translates to well over seven thousand a week. Given that Massachusetts has just over seven million people (specifically, 7,029,917 per the 2020 Census), that has the state running at over a hundred new cases per 100k population per week, which is the CDC's definition of high community transmission. And things aren't getting better; the last time one of these state daily reports came in with less than a thousand newly reported cases was back on August 4. (The three-day report on October 18 did come in under three thousand, but that weekend also had a reporting failure that caused a known undercount.) Compared to where we were back in December 2020 and January of this year, where we were running five or six thousand new cases every day, this is pretty damn good. Compared to where we were back in June and early July, when we were under a hundred new cases a day? This sucks.
Oh, and the state's death toll - combining confirmed and probable deaths - is now over nineteen thousand. Joy.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 12 active and 1,196 cumulative cases as of October 31. 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.
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Arrgh. The day-over-day comparisons aren't terrible, with newly reported deaths down in absolute terms and newly reported cases down if you take the average of the three days of data that today's report covers. Hospitalizations ticked up slightly, but percent-positive is down a bit.
On the other hand, the absolute values still stink. We're still seeing over a thousand newly reported cases every day, even with weekend reporting wonkiness, which translates to well over seven thousand a week. Given that Massachusetts has just over seven million people (specifically, 7,029,917 per the 2020 Census), that has the state running at over a hundred new cases per 100k population per week, which is the CDC's definition of high community transmission. And things aren't getting better; the last time one of these state daily reports came in with less than a thousand newly reported cases was back on August 4. (The three-day report on October 18 did come in under three thousand, but that weekend also had a reporting failure that caused a known undercount.) Compared to where we were back in December 2020 and January of this year, where we were running five or six thousand new cases every day, this is pretty damn good. Compared to where we were back in June and early July, when we were under a hundred new cases a day? This sucks.
Oh, and the state's death toll - combining confirmed and probable deaths - is now over nineteen thousand. Joy.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 12 active and 1,196 cumulative cases as of October 31. 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.