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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 2nd, 2021 06:21 pm( Wall-o-text, with 155 communities in the red zone )
Well. I thought yesterday's numbers were bad. These are worse.
The percent-positive average is down slightly, to just under five percent, but that's pretty much it as far as anything encouraging - and that's the combined average, including all the university students who are getting heavy surveillance testing. Today, the state reported the average excluding higher education, and that number is 7.63% - way, WAY too high for my comfort.
Everything else stinks. Deaths are up again, and today's 5,170 newly reported cases are the first time since January 16 that we've broken five thousand cases in a single day. Hospitalizations are up as well; today's 989 is the highest count reported since February 19. And, while the seven-day positivity average did dip slightly, the other three (cases, deaths and hospitalizations) are all up again.
Massachusetts, of course, gave up on its risk color codes several months back. If they were still reporting them, though, we'd be up to 155 communities in the worst category (up 33 from last week). At least my town is still "only" in the yellow band, courtesy of a relatively low percent-positive value; but considering how fast local case counts are rising, I'm skeptical it'll stay that way.
At least I'm not the only person noticing this; before today's numbers came out, the Boston Globe called yesterday's results "not good at all":
( Read more... )
People keep on talking about how the state's high vaccination rate means a high case rate isn't as much of an issue as it was last year. But Massachusetts is getting high hospitalization rates as well, and the Minnesota case shows that the US is now seeing domestic transmission of the Omicron variant (so much for travel bans from Africa protecting anyone).
Governor Charlie Baker continues to do diddly-squat.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 56 active and 1,369 cumulative cases as of December 1. 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.
Well. I thought yesterday's numbers were bad. These are worse.
The percent-positive average is down slightly, to just under five percent, but that's pretty much it as far as anything encouraging - and that's the combined average, including all the university students who are getting heavy surveillance testing. Today, the state reported the average excluding higher education, and that number is 7.63% - way, WAY too high for my comfort.
Everything else stinks. Deaths are up again, and today's 5,170 newly reported cases are the first time since January 16 that we've broken five thousand cases in a single day. Hospitalizations are up as well; today's 989 is the highest count reported since February 19. And, while the seven-day positivity average did dip slightly, the other three (cases, deaths and hospitalizations) are all up again.
Massachusetts, of course, gave up on its risk color codes several months back. If they were still reporting them, though, we'd be up to 155 communities in the worst category (up 33 from last week). At least my town is still "only" in the yellow band, courtesy of a relatively low percent-positive value; but considering how fast local case counts are rising, I'm skeptical it'll stay that way.
At least I'm not the only person noticing this; before today's numbers came out, the Boston Globe called yesterday's results "not good at all":
( Read more... )
People keep on talking about how the state's high vaccination rate means a high case rate isn't as much of an issue as it was last year. But Massachusetts is getting high hospitalization rates as well, and the Minnesota case shows that the US is now seeing domestic transmission of the Omicron variant (so much for travel bans from Africa protecting anyone).
Governor Charlie Baker continues to do diddly-squat.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 56 active and 1,369 cumulative cases as of December 1. 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.