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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 28th, 2021 07:19 pm( Wall-o-text, with a million confirmed cases and eleven-plus-percent positivity )
Unsurprisingly awful news in today's data; deaths way up (although that's three days of death reports), cases way up (compared to the average over the weekend), hospitalizations up as well. Today, the Commonwealth officially reported its millionth confirmed case; the current running total is 1,002,266. Today's 1,707 COVID patients is the highest that number has been reported since the state reported 1,739 on January 30.
And, in really discouraging news, the seven-day average for percent-positive jumped another percentage point and a half, to 11.01%. It hasn't been that high since the catastrophic initial wave of cases at the beginning of the pandemic.
Of course, there's no sign from Governor Charlie Baker that he's at all interested in taking action to reduce the case counts. And, to be fair, this particular surge hasn't yet resulting in the horrible hospitalization and death rates that we saw in the initial outbreak or last winter's surge, which does rather imply that the state's high vaccination rates are working to protect folks from the worst outcomes. But there's no indication at all that this surge in cases is going to peak any time soon, and we're awfully close to running out of hospital beds.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 164 active and 1,660 cumulative cases as of December 27; that's the highest the active case count has ever been. The most recent "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.
Unsurprisingly awful news in today's data; deaths way up (although that's three days of death reports), cases way up (compared to the average over the weekend), hospitalizations up as well. Today, the Commonwealth officially reported its millionth confirmed case; the current running total is 1,002,266. Today's 1,707 COVID patients is the highest that number has been reported since the state reported 1,739 on January 30.
And, in really discouraging news, the seven-day average for percent-positive jumped another percentage point and a half, to 11.01%. It hasn't been that high since the catastrophic initial wave of cases at the beginning of the pandemic.
Of course, there's no sign from Governor Charlie Baker that he's at all interested in taking action to reduce the case counts. And, to be fair, this particular surge hasn't yet resulting in the horrible hospitalization and death rates that we saw in the initial outbreak or last winter's surge, which does rather imply that the state's high vaccination rates are working to protect folks from the worst outcomes. But there's no indication at all that this surge in cases is going to peak any time soon, and we're awfully close to running out of hospital beds.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 164 active and 1,660 cumulative cases as of December 27; that's the highest the active case count has ever been. The most recent "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.