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Day-over-day deaths are down a bit, as is the seven-day percent-positive average, so yay? But cases and hospitalizations are up again; today's 1,003 patients in hospital is the first time we've been over a thousand since February 17. And the other three seven-day averages (deaths, cases, and hospitalizations) are all up again compared to yesterday. Fifteen thousand new cases in the last three days? Yuck.
The state reported 185 open ICU beds in today's report, but they're clearly not distributed equally across the Commmonwealth. The front page of today's Boston Globe told the story: UMass Memorial Worcester ran out of ICU beds yesterday:
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Gee, thanks for nothing, Charlie. The CDC's mask guidelines currently say that everyone should mask up in indoor public areas if they're in an area of high or sustained community transmission - which, today, is all of Massachusetts except Nantucket. Governor Baker could easily use that as the basis for a new mask mandate, and that would take a good chunk out of the transmission rates statewide. (Then, once the transmission rates go down, the mandate goes away automatically! Win-win!) But, no, things are clearly not bad enough for our Governor to get off his butt.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 69 active and 1,382 cumulative cases as of December 2; the 69 active cases are the most the town has reported since it reported 70 cases on January 13. 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.
Day-over-day deaths are down a bit, as is the seven-day percent-positive average, so yay? But cases and hospitalizations are up again; today's 1,003 patients in hospital is the first time we've been over a thousand since February 17. And the other three seven-day averages (deaths, cases, and hospitalizations) are all up again compared to yesterday. Fifteen thousand new cases in the last three days? Yuck.
The state reported 185 open ICU beds in today's report, but they're clearly not distributed equally across the Commmonwealth. The front page of today's Boston Globe told the story: UMass Memorial Worcester ran out of ICU beds yesterday:
( Read more... )
Gee, thanks for nothing, Charlie. The CDC's mask guidelines currently say that everyone should mask up in indoor public areas if they're in an area of high or sustained community transmission - which, today, is all of Massachusetts except Nantucket. Governor Baker could easily use that as the basis for a new mask mandate, and that would take a good chunk out of the transmission rates statewide. (Then, once the transmission rates go down, the mandate goes away automatically! Win-win!) But, no, things are clearly not bad enough for our Governor to get off his butt.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 69 active and 1,382 cumulative cases as of December 2; the 69 active cases are the most the town has reported since it reported 70 cases on January 13. 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.