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Local COVID-19 updates
Jan. 27th, 2022 07:05 pm( Wall-o-text, with percent-positive finally below 10% again )
The news is definitely mixed today. On the bad side, newly confirmed deaths continue to climb; even worse, newly confirmed cases are also up for the third day in a row. Hospitalizations did drop again, which is good to see. The seven-day average for deaths keeps ticking up as well. On the other hand, the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive are all down; at 9.48%, the percent-positive average is below ten percent for the first time since December 27, 2021, one month ago.
The weekly city/town data shows a slight improvement; were the Commonwealth still reporting risk color codes, "only" 302 communities would be in the highest "red" category, down nine from last week. Still, that's basically the entire state, including my home town, my church's town, and every town bordering either of them.
While the case counts are far better than a couple of weeks ago, they're still far, far too high for comfort. And recent projections are that they'll stay high for weeks:
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Note that the above story doesn't address the fact that the last three days have seen newly reported case counts climb, rather than fall. Yes, we seem to be making progress, but nowhere near as fast as I'd wish - nor as fast as I was starting to hope.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 110 active and 2,594 cumulative cases as of January 25, and apparently has not been updated since. 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.
The news is definitely mixed today. On the bad side, newly confirmed deaths continue to climb; even worse, newly confirmed cases are also up for the third day in a row. Hospitalizations did drop again, which is good to see. The seven-day average for deaths keeps ticking up as well. On the other hand, the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive are all down; at 9.48%, the percent-positive average is below ten percent for the first time since December 27, 2021, one month ago.
The weekly city/town data shows a slight improvement; were the Commonwealth still reporting risk color codes, "only" 302 communities would be in the highest "red" category, down nine from last week. Still, that's basically the entire state, including my home town, my church's town, and every town bordering either of them.
While the case counts are far better than a couple of weeks ago, they're still far, far too high for comfort. And recent projections are that they'll stay high for weeks:
( Read more... )
Note that the above story doesn't address the fact that the last three days have seen newly reported case counts climb, rather than fall. Yes, we seem to be making progress, but nowhere near as fast as I'd wish - nor as fast as I was starting to hope.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 110 active and 2,594 cumulative cases as of January 25, and apparently has not been updated since. 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.