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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Nov. 26th, 2021 08:53 pmUnsurprisingly, the state took yesterday off:
( Wall-o-text, covering 2 days )
Well, we get a borked data file, for starters, which required a bit of hacking around. Then we get what might look at first like decent news, as newly reported deaths and cases are both down compared to Wednesday's report, if you average today's numbers over two days. On the other hand, only 49 of those newly reported cases were from tests that were dated yesterday, which shouldn't surprise me too much since yesterday was a holiday; I suspect that count would have been much, much higher if not for the holiday. Besides, twenty-five-hundred cases a day isn't good news under any circumstances. Hospitalizations are up as is percent-positive. The city and town data that normally shows up on Thursdays was reported today, and that's pretty bad news as well. If the state were still reporting risk codes, the number of communities at highest risk would have almost doubled to 122, including three near my town of Acton (which isn't red yet, but is continuing to see a rapid rise in cases; see the end of this post).
And, just in case that wasn't enough bad news for a Friday, there's a new and potentially extra-nasty coronavirus variant (B.1.1.529) out there, with the World Health Organization designating it "omicron":
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Well, shit. I doubt those travel bans will do much good, if it's already showing up in Europe and Asia.
Happy goddamn weekend, folks.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 64 active and 1,329 cumulative cases as of November 25; the 64 active cases are the most the town has reported since it reported 66 cases on January 19. 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 was not posted on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 25. Data from Wednesday, November 24 to Thursday, November 25 is included in the dashboard posted on Friday, November 26.So what do we get for two days of data?
( Wall-o-text, covering 2 days )
Well, we get a borked data file, for starters, which required a bit of hacking around. Then we get what might look at first like decent news, as newly reported deaths and cases are both down compared to Wednesday's report, if you average today's numbers over two days. On the other hand, only 49 of those newly reported cases were from tests that were dated yesterday, which shouldn't surprise me too much since yesterday was a holiday; I suspect that count would have been much, much higher if not for the holiday. Besides, twenty-five-hundred cases a day isn't good news under any circumstances. Hospitalizations are up as is percent-positive. The city and town data that normally shows up on Thursdays was reported today, and that's pretty bad news as well. If the state were still reporting risk codes, the number of communities at highest risk would have almost doubled to 122, including three near my town of Acton (which isn't red yet, but is continuing to see a rapid rise in cases; see the end of this post).
And, just in case that wasn't enough bad news for a Friday, there's a new and potentially extra-nasty coronavirus variant (B.1.1.529) out there, with the World Health Organization designating it "omicron":
( Read more... )
Well, shit. I doubt those travel bans will do much good, if it's already showing up in Europe and Asia.
Happy goddamn weekend, folks.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 64 active and 1,329 cumulative cases as of November 25; the 64 active cases are the most the town has reported since it reported 66 cases on January 19. 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.