Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates

It would appear that last Monday's problems with the raw hospitalization data will be an ongoing thing. (The state wasn't providing the preceding Saturday or Sunday counts on Monday, which mucked up the calculations.) So I've tweaked the loader - again - to compensate.

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Deaths up day-over-day, which is not good at all. Raw numbers of cases are up, but we're covering three days of case data today; averaged out, there's a big drop in cases per day. Hospitalizations (once I got the loader working) are down as well, which is definitely encouraging. The seven-day averages are all down, which is very encouraging.

Overall, Massachusetts seems on a decent trajectory. On the other hand, the new BA.2 Omicron subvariant may get in the way of further declines:
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Yay. </sarcasm>

In definitely good news, though, the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine (the one I got) has now been given full approval by the Food and Drug Administration:
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The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 59 active and 2,657 cumulative cases as of January 30. 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.