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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 22nd, 2021 06:25 pm( Wall-o-text, and a new record single-day case count )
The raw death count is down compared to yesterday's report, but the Commonwealth is now reporting three days of deaths on Tuesdays; today's 33 are actually 70% higher than the three-day average of 19.3 deaths reported yesterday. Cases are also screamingly higher; today's 7,817 newly reported confirmed cases is not only up 41% from yesterday, it is the highest single-day case count ever reported by the state. Hospitalizations are also up, although not by nearly as great a percentage; still, the 1,621 patients reported today are the highest that number has been since February 3. All four seven-day averages are up; the one for percent-positive jumped another half a percentage point and is now (at 7.01%) over seven percent for the first time since January.
Oh, and looking at the combined numbers for confirmed and probable deaths, it looks like the state will crack twenty thousand COVID-19 fatalities tomorrow. What a wonderful early Christmas gift. Thank you so much, Omicron variant and Governor Charlie Baker. </sarcasm>
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 89 active and 1,538 cumulative cases as of December 21; both the 89 active cases and the 29 more cumulative cases than the day prior are the highest the town has ever reported in this pandemic. The town also released a new "newsflash style update"; at 7PM on December 21, 2021, the town reported 1538 cumulative cases with 89 individuals in isolation, 1417 recovered and 32 fatalities. The previous update at 1PM on November 22, 2021 reported 1304 cumulative cases with 54 individuals in isolation, 1218 persons recovered and 32 fatalities. At least we still haven't had anyone die of COVID in Acton since late February.
The raw death count is down compared to yesterday's report, but the Commonwealth is now reporting three days of deaths on Tuesdays; today's 33 are actually 70% higher than the three-day average of 19.3 deaths reported yesterday. Cases are also screamingly higher; today's 7,817 newly reported confirmed cases is not only up 41% from yesterday, it is the highest single-day case count ever reported by the state. Hospitalizations are also up, although not by nearly as great a percentage; still, the 1,621 patients reported today are the highest that number has been since February 3. All four seven-day averages are up; the one for percent-positive jumped another half a percentage point and is now (at 7.01%) over seven percent for the first time since January.
Oh, and looking at the combined numbers for confirmed and probable deaths, it looks like the state will crack twenty thousand COVID-19 fatalities tomorrow. What a wonderful early Christmas gift. Thank you so much, Omicron variant and Governor Charlie Baker. </sarcasm>
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 89 active and 1,538 cumulative cases as of December 21; both the 89 active cases and the 29 more cumulative cases than the day prior are the highest the town has ever reported in this pandemic. The town also released a new "newsflash style update"; at 7PM on December 21, 2021, the town reported 1538 cumulative cases with 89 individuals in isolation, 1417 recovered and 32 fatalities. The previous update at 1PM on November 22, 2021 reported 1304 cumulative cases with 54 individuals in isolation, 1218 persons recovered and 32 fatalities. At least we still haven't had anyone die of COVID in Acton since late February.