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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 14th, 2021 06:14 pm( Wall-o-text )
The day-over-day comparisons are almost all extremely bad. Deaths are way up, more than double yesterday's total; today's 61 reported deaths are the highest number reported since the 66 deaths reported on March 3. Cases are up as well compared to the three-day average of yesterday's totals. Hospitalizations are up yet again; tooday's count of 1,410 is the highest that number has been since 1,451 were reported on February 6. The seven-day average for newly reported cases is down a bit, but the other three averages are up; deaths are up a lot, and percent-positive is back above five percent. Oh, and the state has less than two hundred non-ICU hospital beds available (out of 8,866 total). Yay?
The Massachusetts Medical Society today called for a statewide mask mandate for indoor public spaces:
( Read more... )
Hopefully they'll succeed in getting the governor's attention, although I'm frankly skeptical.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 43 active and 1,446 cumulative cases as of December 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.
The day-over-day comparisons are almost all extremely bad. Deaths are way up, more than double yesterday's total; today's 61 reported deaths are the highest number reported since the 66 deaths reported on March 3. Cases are up as well compared to the three-day average of yesterday's totals. Hospitalizations are up yet again; tooday's count of 1,410 is the highest that number has been since 1,451 were reported on February 6. The seven-day average for newly reported cases is down a bit, but the other three averages are up; deaths are up a lot, and percent-positive is back above five percent. Oh, and the state has less than two hundred non-ICU hospital beds available (out of 8,866 total). Yay?
The Massachusetts Medical Society today called for a statewide mask mandate for indoor public spaces:
( Read more... )
Hopefully they'll succeed in getting the governor's attention, although I'm frankly skeptical.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 43 active and 1,446 cumulative cases as of December 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.