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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 14th, 2022 05:37 pmUnsurprisingly, the state is taking the upcoming holiday off:
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An encouraging drop in cases day-over-day; today's 12,864 newly reported cases are still way too damn high, but that's the lowest single-day count all year. However, we're seeing much less encouraging rises in deaths and hospitalizations; today's 3,223 hospitalizations are the highest reported since May 8, 2020. The seven-day averages are showing drops for cases and percent-positive (we're below 20% again! Yay?) but continued upward trends for deaths and hospitalizations. Overall, it does appear that the cases are cresting, while the hospitalizations and deaths are still working their way through the system. Of course, given the "network connectivity issues" noted above, there apparently could be a boatload of test reports that just couldn't make it to the state's reporting system. So who knows what the heck Tuesday's numbers are going to look like?
(At least the MWRA virus levels are still trending downward.)
I've been very critical of Governor Charlie Baker recently for his unwillingness to do anything besides talk about how vaccinations are wonderful for the past several months, as first the Delta variant and then the Omicron variant have sent case counts skyrocketing. Today, his administration actually took some action, issuing several emergency orders to ... tweak hospital staffing requirements:
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Today's dashboard shows that only 6.4% of general hospital beds and 13.0% of the ICU beds are currently unoccupied. I'm not at all sure how effective these orders are going to be in providing additional capacity, especially as the hospitalization rates seem likely to keep climbing for a week or two. But what do I know?
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 158 active and 2,236 cumulative cases as of January 13. 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.
*January 17 holiday: the daily COVID-19 Interactive Data Dashboard will not be posted on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 17. Data from Friday, January 14 to Monday, January 17 will be included in the dashboard published on Tuesday, January 18.And, as I was getting ready to post today's writeup, the state added the following note to their dashboard:
NOTICE January 14, 2022So we need to take today's data with a even bigger grain of salt than usual, apparently.
Today’s COVID-19 data are incomplete. Network connectivity issues on Thursday, January 13, 2022, affecting some state agencies, resulted in a substantial percentage of laboratory results not being reported into the Massachusetts Virtual Epidemiologic Network (MAVEN). These results will be included in the next dashboard report on Tuesday, January 18, 2022.
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An encouraging drop in cases day-over-day; today's 12,864 newly reported cases are still way too damn high, but that's the lowest single-day count all year. However, we're seeing much less encouraging rises in deaths and hospitalizations; today's 3,223 hospitalizations are the highest reported since May 8, 2020. The seven-day averages are showing drops for cases and percent-positive (we're below 20% again! Yay?) but continued upward trends for deaths and hospitalizations. Overall, it does appear that the cases are cresting, while the hospitalizations and deaths are still working their way through the system. Of course, given the "network connectivity issues" noted above, there apparently could be a boatload of test reports that just couldn't make it to the state's reporting system. So who knows what the heck Tuesday's numbers are going to look like?
(At least the MWRA virus levels are still trending downward.)
I've been very critical of Governor Charlie Baker recently for his unwillingness to do anything besides talk about how vaccinations are wonderful for the past several months, as first the Delta variant and then the Omicron variant have sent case counts skyrocketing. Today, his administration actually took some action, issuing several emergency orders to ... tweak hospital staffing requirements:
( Read more... )
Today's dashboard shows that only 6.4% of general hospital beds and 13.0% of the ICU beds are currently unoccupied. I'm not at all sure how effective these orders are going to be in providing additional capacity, especially as the hospitalization rates seem likely to keep climbing for a week or two. But what do I know?
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 158 active and 2,236 cumulative cases as of January 13. 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.