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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Jan. 13th, 2022 05:33 pm( Wall-o-text, with 310 cities and towns now in the red )
Deaths and cases both down from yesterday, which is certainly good news. Hospitalizations are up again, which isn't; today's census of 3,180 is the highest reported since May 8, 2020. Seven-day averages are also a mixed bag, with hospitalizations up again while cases and percent-positive both dropped slightly.
The city/town data released today is worse than last week, with nineteen new communities added to the highest-risk category and none removed, for a grand total of 310 such communities. On the other hand, these numbers are based on two-week trailing case counts and percent-positive averages, so the tapering of new cases in the past couple of days has yet to overcome the catastrophic increases of the rest of the surge.
Overall, if we are in fact passing the peak of the Omicron surge, one would expect cases to drop before hospitalizations. The levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus in the MWRA wastewater are down again in today's report, so that's worth a bit more hope.
President Joe Biden today said the federal government will be rolling out its website for people to request free COVID-19 tests next week, along with "high-quality" N95 masks:
( Read more... )
At least President Biden is interested in doing something. Pity Governor Charlie Baker isn't.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 146 active and 2,215 cumulative cases as of January 12. 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.
Deaths and cases both down from yesterday, which is certainly good news. Hospitalizations are up again, which isn't; today's census of 3,180 is the highest reported since May 8, 2020. Seven-day averages are also a mixed bag, with hospitalizations up again while cases and percent-positive both dropped slightly.
The city/town data released today is worse than last week, with nineteen new communities added to the highest-risk category and none removed, for a grand total of 310 such communities. On the other hand, these numbers are based on two-week trailing case counts and percent-positive averages, so the tapering of new cases in the past couple of days has yet to overcome the catastrophic increases of the rest of the surge.
Overall, if we are in fact passing the peak of the Omicron surge, one would expect cases to drop before hospitalizations. The levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus in the MWRA wastewater are down again in today's report, so that's worth a bit more hope.
President Joe Biden today said the federal government will be rolling out its website for people to request free COVID-19 tests next week, along with "high-quality" N95 masks:
( Read more... )
At least President Biden is interested in doing something. Pity Governor Charlie Baker isn't.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 146 active and 2,215 cumulative cases as of January 12. 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.