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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 6th, 2021 05:34 pmWhoosh! There go the case counts!
( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days )
Of course, today's report (a) covers three days which (b) include the weekend (when reporting gets wonky); so the fact that newly reported cases and deaths average out to be less than Friday's single-day numbers doesn't give me much of a warm fuzzy feeling. In fact, today's 11,199 newly reported confirmed cases was the first time in the entire pandemic that the state reported ten thousand new cases in a single report. We had a big jump in hospitalizations, which is discouraging. The seven-day average for deaths and percent-positive are both down, but those for cases and hospitalizations are both up - and, of course, things are significantly worse than two weeks ago. Comparing the seven-day averages to those on the same date last year, we've got close to the same case rate, but the other averages (percent positive, hospitalizations and deaths) are all a bit lower. Yay vaccinations, I guess.
We're not even a week into December and the state has already seen over twenty six thousand new cases. And, if the virus levels in Boston-area wastewater are any indication, things are only getting worse:
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The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 68 active and 1,397 cumulative cases as of December 5; over the weekend, the town peaked at 75 active cases on December 3, the most since 79 active cases on December 12, 2020. 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.
( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days )
Of course, today's report (a) covers three days which (b) include the weekend (when reporting gets wonky); so the fact that newly reported cases and deaths average out to be less than Friday's single-day numbers doesn't give me much of a warm fuzzy feeling. In fact, today's 11,199 newly reported confirmed cases was the first time in the entire pandemic that the state reported ten thousand new cases in a single report. We had a big jump in hospitalizations, which is discouraging. The seven-day average for deaths and percent-positive are both down, but those for cases and hospitalizations are both up - and, of course, things are significantly worse than two weeks ago. Comparing the seven-day averages to those on the same date last year, we've got close to the same case rate, but the other averages (percent positive, hospitalizations and deaths) are all a bit lower. Yay vaccinations, I guess.
We're not even a week into December and the state has already seen over twenty six thousand new cases. And, if the virus levels in Boston-area wastewater are any indication, things are only getting worse:
( Read more... )
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 68 active and 1,397 cumulative cases as of December 5; over the weekend, the town peaked at 75 active cases on December 3, the most since 79 active cases on December 12, 2020. 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.