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Local COVID-19 updates
Nov. 24th, 2021 06:01 pmThe state will be taking tomorrow off for Thanksgiving, unsurprisingly:
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Day-to-day deaths are down, but cases are way up again and hospitalizations are up a tad. The seven-day percent-positive average is still climbing, although at 3.31% it's still well below the 5% marker that supposedly means you're doing enough testing to actually know what's going on in your area. The other seven-day averages also are up compared to yesterday, and way up compared to, say, a couple of weeks ago. Overall, sucktastic news.
Yesterday, Governor Charlie Baker actually took some action in response to the worsening situation here in Massachusetts: he told hospitals to reduce non-urgent surgeries:
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Well, I suppose reserving hospital capacity makes some sense, if you're concerned about hospitals being overwhelmed again. But why isn't the state taking steps to reduce the likelihood that they'd be overwhelmed in the first place?
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 55 active and 1,315 cumulative cases as of November 24. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 1PM on November 22, 2021 reported 1304 cumulative cases with 54 individuals in isolation, 1218 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.
Please note: The daily COVID-19 Interactive Data Dashboard will not be posted on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 25. Data from Wednesday, November 24 to Thursday, November 25 will be included in the dashboard published on Friday, November 26.But as for today:
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Day-to-day deaths are down, but cases are way up again and hospitalizations are up a tad. The seven-day percent-positive average is still climbing, although at 3.31% it's still well below the 5% marker that supposedly means you're doing enough testing to actually know what's going on in your area. The other seven-day averages also are up compared to yesterday, and way up compared to, say, a couple of weeks ago. Overall, sucktastic news.
Yesterday, Governor Charlie Baker actually took some action in response to the worsening situation here in Massachusetts: he told hospitals to reduce non-urgent surgeries:
( Read more... )
Well, I suppose reserving hospital capacity makes some sense, if you're concerned about hospitals being overwhelmed again. But why isn't the state taking steps to reduce the likelihood that they'd be overwhelmed in the first place?
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 55 active and 1,315 cumulative cases as of November 24. The most recent "newsflash style update" at 1PM on November 22, 2021 reported 1304 cumulative cases with 54 individuals in isolation, 1218 persons recovered and 32 fatalities.