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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Dec. 21st, 2021 06:00 pm( Wall-o-text )
Oh, joy. Deaths are up compared to yesterday, but supposedly today's death count covers three days, so that's not so bad, except two of those days are the weekend when reporting is horked, so who the heck can tell? Cases are down compared to yesterday, but yesterday's case count covered three days and cases are up compared to the average of those three days, so that stinks. Hospitalizations are up again; today's 1,612 patients are the highest that number has been since the state reported 1,635 patients on February 3. The seven-day case average actually dropped slightly, although it's still over four thousand; the averages for deaths and hospitalizations are both up, and the average for percent-positive is up half a percentage point to 6.45%. We haven't been over six percent since ... sometime in January, I think? The way the state's raw data is set up, you can't tell from today's spreadsheet what they were reporting any other day of the year. Anyway, it's been a long time since percent-positive was that high. No wonder the folks at CovidActNow are currently showing Massachusetts in their "severe" risk category (the worst one they have).
Governor Charlie Baker, who is apparently terminally allergic to effective actions to reduce cases, did announce an indoor mask advisory for the entire state, along with National Guard deployments to support healthcare facilities:
( Read more )
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden says the Federal government will send out half a billion free at-home COVID tests ... starting next year:
( And even more )
So, help is on the way ... sort of ... after the holidays. Meanwhile, after months of nobody being required to do the right thing in the middle of surging cases (and thus too many people not bothering), we've got an even bigger surge coming ... and nobody's required to do the right thing.
What could possibly go wrong? </sarcasm>
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 60 active and 1,509 cumulative cases as of December 20. 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.
Oh, joy. Deaths are up compared to yesterday, but supposedly today's death count covers three days, so that's not so bad, except two of those days are the weekend when reporting is horked, so who the heck can tell? Cases are down compared to yesterday, but yesterday's case count covered three days and cases are up compared to the average of those three days, so that stinks. Hospitalizations are up again; today's 1,612 patients are the highest that number has been since the state reported 1,635 patients on February 3. The seven-day case average actually dropped slightly, although it's still over four thousand; the averages for deaths and hospitalizations are both up, and the average for percent-positive is up half a percentage point to 6.45%. We haven't been over six percent since ... sometime in January, I think? The way the state's raw data is set up, you can't tell from today's spreadsheet what they were reporting any other day of the year. Anyway, it's been a long time since percent-positive was that high. No wonder the folks at CovidActNow are currently showing Massachusetts in their "severe" risk category (the worst one they have).
Governor Charlie Baker, who is apparently terminally allergic to effective actions to reduce cases, did announce an indoor mask advisory for the entire state, along with National Guard deployments to support healthcare facilities:
( Read more )
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden says the Federal government will send out half a billion free at-home COVID tests ... starting next year:
( And even more )
So, help is on the way ... sort of ... after the holidays. Meanwhile, after months of nobody being required to do the right thing in the middle of surging cases (and thus too many people not bothering), we've got an even bigger surge coming ... and nobody's required to do the right thing.
What could possibly go wrong? </sarcasm>
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 60 active and 1,509 cumulative cases as of December 20. 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.