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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 24th, 2022 07:04 pmSigh. The state changed the way they report stuff in their raw data file with (apparently) no announcement at all. Again. This time, it looks like they're not bothering to update hospitalization data over the weekend, and are instead using Friday's numbers for their Monday report. Of course, that completely breaks my logic for getting useful hospitalization data out of their spreadsheet. Again. For today, at least, I hand-calculated the hospitalization numbers in the wall-o-text below; I'm not sure how this is going to work going forward.
( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of case data )
The day-to-day comparisons are actually pretty good, with the proviso that weekend reporting is wonky and the state keeps changing how they report stuff. Newly reported deaths are down, newly reported confirmed cases are down (if you average today's number over the three days it represents, that is) and hospitalizations are also down. Three of the four seven-day averages (cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive) are down as well; deaths are up, but not by as much as one might have feared. It is really looking like Massachusetts, at least, is coming off its Omicron peak. On the other hand, all those numbers are still way, way too damn high for comfort.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 137 active and 2,547 cumulative cases as of January 20. 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.
( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of case data )
The day-to-day comparisons are actually pretty good, with the proviso that weekend reporting is wonky and the state keeps changing how they report stuff. Newly reported deaths are down, newly reported confirmed cases are down (if you average today's number over the three days it represents, that is) and hospitalizations are also down. Three of the four seven-day averages (cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive) are down as well; deaths are up, but not by as much as one might have feared. It is really looking like Massachusetts, at least, is coming off its Omicron peak. On the other hand, all those numbers are still way, way too damn high for comfort.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 137 active and 2,547 cumulative cases as of January 20. 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.