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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 31st, 2021 06:44 pm( Wall-o-text, with another record for new cases and 18.42% percent-positive )
Day-over-day deaths (48) are up a lot. Cases (at 21,397) are up slightly, but still breaking the all-time record for newly reported confirmed cases set just ... yesterday. Hospitalizations are also up yet again, at 1,954; not a record, but the highest that number has been since January 25. All the seven-day averages are up again; the state is now reporting an average 9,408 new cases per day (far ansd away the highest of the pandemic), while the percent-postive rate is now at 18.42%, which the state hasn't seen since the catastrophic initial wave on April 30, 2020.
Scarily, the skyrocketing percent-positive means that the skyrocketing case counts are almost certainly massive undercounts.
The slightly good news is that we're beginning to see why the Omicron variant causes less severe illness; it apparently has a hard time getting into the lungs:
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The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 176 active and 1,711 cumulative cases as of December 30. 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.
Day-over-day deaths (48) are up a lot. Cases (at 21,397) are up slightly, but still breaking the all-time record for newly reported confirmed cases set just ... yesterday. Hospitalizations are also up yet again, at 1,954; not a record, but the highest that number has been since January 25. All the seven-day averages are up again; the state is now reporting an average 9,408 new cases per day (far ansd away the highest of the pandemic), while the percent-postive rate is now at 18.42%, which the state hasn't seen since the catastrophic initial wave on April 30, 2020.
Scarily, the skyrocketing percent-positive means that the skyrocketing case counts are almost certainly massive undercounts.
The slightly good news is that we're beginning to see why the Omicron variant causes less severe illness; it apparently has a hard time getting into the lungs:
( Read more... )
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 176 active and 1,711 cumulative cases as of December 30. 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.