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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Feb. 14th, 2022 07:15 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of case data )
Deaths up compared to the previous report, which is not at all good. Cases are up in raw numbers, but today's report covers three days of data (including the weekend). Today's 3,863 cases are the lowest three-day count reported since 3,243 new cases over three days were reported on November 1, 2021. Averaging that case count over three days gets us down to 1,287.7 cases per day; the last time a single-day new case count was that low was the 1,066 reported on November 2, 2021. The various hospitalization counts are all down from Friday, as are all seven-day averages; in fact, the percent-positive average is down to 3.00%. These are overall encouraging trends; however, I'm taking the case data with a very large grain of salt, since weekend reporting has been notoriously wonky throughout the pandemic. And the absolute values, while far better than the worst days of the Omicron surge, remain absolutely horrible compared to last summer.
Looking ahead to the future, various experts are warning that this pandemic has plenty more in store for us:
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Me, I'm hoping somebody is working on a rapid, breath-based test for whether someone is infectious and thus a threat to others who needs to be at least temporarily quarantined, rather than infected (and thus possibly, but not certainly, infectious). One of the nastiest things about COVID is the fact that people who feel perfectly well can actually be spreading massive amounts of virus, and we have no quick way to tell such people from folks who are actually healthy.
Meanwhile, about the only thing I can do to protect either me or you is to vax up and mask up. Which I'm still doing, as annoying as hell as it is.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 30 active and 2,738 cumulative cases as of February 9, 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.
Deaths up compared to the previous report, which is not at all good. Cases are up in raw numbers, but today's report covers three days of data (including the weekend). Today's 3,863 cases are the lowest three-day count reported since 3,243 new cases over three days were reported on November 1, 2021. Averaging that case count over three days gets us down to 1,287.7 cases per day; the last time a single-day new case count was that low was the 1,066 reported on November 2, 2021. The various hospitalization counts are all down from Friday, as are all seven-day averages; in fact, the percent-positive average is down to 3.00%. These are overall encouraging trends; however, I'm taking the case data with a very large grain of salt, since weekend reporting has been notoriously wonky throughout the pandemic. And the absolute values, while far better than the worst days of the Omicron surge, remain absolutely horrible compared to last summer.
Looking ahead to the future, various experts are warning that this pandemic has plenty more in store for us:
( Read more... )
Me, I'm hoping somebody is working on a rapid, breath-based test for whether someone is infectious and thus a threat to others who needs to be at least temporarily quarantined, rather than infected (and thus possibly, but not certainly, infectious). One of the nastiest things about COVID is the fact that people who feel perfectly well can actually be spreading massive amounts of virus, and we have no quick way to tell such people from folks who are actually healthy.
Meanwhile, about the only thing I can do to protect either me or you is to vax up and mask up. Which I'm still doing, as annoying as hell as it is.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 30 active and 2,738 cumulative cases as of February 9, 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.