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Local COVID-19 updates
Feb. 8th, 2022 05:49 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of death data )
Okay, that's actually some good news. Yes, the raw number of deaths is up a bunch compared to yesterday's report, but today's report covers three days of deaths data; averaged over those three days, deaths were down sharply (42.7 vs 56). Cases are also down substantially, even when compared to yesterday's reported cases averaged over the three days it covered; in fact, today's single-day report of 1,792 is the lowest such single-day number since 1,745 newly reported cases on November 10, 2021. Hospitalizations are also down, with the total reported census (1,325) at the lowest level since December 10, 2021. The four seven-day averages are also continuing to trend downward, with percent-positive down to 4.53%. Definitely good trends.
But not yet good absolute numbers. The entire state still has high community transmission according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, with Massachusetts showing a seven-day case rate of 376.3 cases per 100k population. To get to the "moderate" level where CDC guidance no longer recommends fully vaccinated individuals mask indoors, that case rate needs to get down below fifty; the current CDC county view only shows 14 out of 3,220 US counties with case rates that low. It's way, way too damn early to declare victory.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 43 active and 2,731 cumulative cases as of February 7. 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.
Okay, that's actually some good news. Yes, the raw number of deaths is up a bunch compared to yesterday's report, but today's report covers three days of deaths data; averaged over those three days, deaths were down sharply (42.7 vs 56). Cases are also down substantially, even when compared to yesterday's reported cases averaged over the three days it covered; in fact, today's single-day report of 1,792 is the lowest such single-day number since 1,745 newly reported cases on November 10, 2021. Hospitalizations are also down, with the total reported census (1,325) at the lowest level since December 10, 2021. The four seven-day averages are also continuing to trend downward, with percent-positive down to 4.53%. Definitely good trends.
But not yet good absolute numbers. The entire state still has high community transmission according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, with Massachusetts showing a seven-day case rate of 376.3 cases per 100k population. To get to the "moderate" level where CDC guidance no longer recommends fully vaccinated individuals mask indoors, that case rate needs to get down below fifty; the current CDC county view only shows 14 out of 3,220 US counties with case rates that low. It's way, way too damn early to declare victory.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 43 active and 2,731 cumulative cases as of February 7. 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.