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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 18th, 2022 06:37 pmAs previously advertised, the Commonwealth took the weekend off from reporting. Not as previously advertised, today's report (despite being a Tuesday) will not include weekend death numbers:
( Wall-o-text, covering 4 days of case data )
So this is supposedly one day's worth of deaths data and somewhere between four and five days worth of case/test data, depending on just big that "remaining backlog of laboratory results from Thursday, January 13th" was. The death count is down somewhat compared to Friday, which is good to see. The case counts, even averaged over four days, are up, which is not so good; on the other hand, the state isn't saying how big that backlog was, so maybe it's not as bad news as one might think? In any event, the 14,122 average cases over that period are lower than the 18,721 of Thursday's report, so that's a good trend. The hospitalization count is also down compared to Friday's report, and that's definitely good news. The seven-day averages are more of a mixed bag, but the average for cases dropped a bunch and that for percent-positive is down to 17.44%. Overall, I'm very hesitant to read too much into day-over-day trendlines today, courtesy of greater-than-average data weirdness; on the other hand, for the first time in a long time, the seven-day averages for cases and percent-positive are better than they were two weeks previously.
And Governor Charlie Baker actually did something about COVID today, announcing that the state would be providing weekly at-home rapid antigen tests to all school staff and students who sign up:
( Read more... )
Hey, it's something, and it sounds like an overall improvement. But limiting the tests to once per week, when a newly infected person can easily be contagious within a day or two, definitely sounds like an emphasis on being cheap (and reducing some spread) rather than doing what it takes to stop the spread.
Sigh. Keep masking up, folks; at least that is something one has control over.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 153 active and 2,388 cumulative cases as of January 17; the active case count peaked on January 15 with 199 active cases. 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.
NOTICE January 18, 2022Okay, I guess.
Today's (January 18th) daily COVID-19 Interactive Data Dashboard includes data from Friday, January 14th through Monday, January 17th, as well as the remaining backlog of laboratory results from Thursday, January 13th resulting from network connectivity issues that affected numerous state agencies. Death data from the weekend will be included in the January 19th dashboard data.
( Wall-o-text, covering 4 days of case data )
So this is supposedly one day's worth of deaths data and somewhere between four and five days worth of case/test data, depending on just big that "remaining backlog of laboratory results from Thursday, January 13th" was. The death count is down somewhat compared to Friday, which is good to see. The case counts, even averaged over four days, are up, which is not so good; on the other hand, the state isn't saying how big that backlog was, so maybe it's not as bad news as one might think? In any event, the 14,122 average cases over that period are lower than the 18,721 of Thursday's report, so that's a good trend. The hospitalization count is also down compared to Friday's report, and that's definitely good news. The seven-day averages are more of a mixed bag, but the average for cases dropped a bunch and that for percent-positive is down to 17.44%. Overall, I'm very hesitant to read too much into day-over-day trendlines today, courtesy of greater-than-average data weirdness; on the other hand, for the first time in a long time, the seven-day averages for cases and percent-positive are better than they were two weeks previously.
And Governor Charlie Baker actually did something about COVID today, announcing that the state would be providing weekly at-home rapid antigen tests to all school staff and students who sign up:
( Read more... )
Hey, it's something, and it sounds like an overall improvement. But limiting the tests to once per week, when a newly infected person can easily be contagious within a day or two, definitely sounds like an emphasis on being cheap (and reducing some spread) rather than doing what it takes to stop the spread.
Sigh. Keep masking up, folks; at least that is something one has control over.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 153 active and 2,388 cumulative cases as of January 17; the active case count peaked on January 15 with 199 active cases. 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.