Take any good news today with an extra-large grain of salt, as the Commonwealth has added the following notice to today's dashboard:
SPECIAL NOTE: The data report today (2/23) reflects lower numbers than usual, due to a systems issue that temporarily interrupted reporting from several hospital systems. The issue has been resolved and the missing data will be included in tomorrow’s dashboard.
And do we get any good news today?
( Wall-o-text )Day-over-day deaths are
way up, which is certainly not good at all; hopefully, that's due more to weekend reporting delays than a hike in overall death rates. Cases are down day-over-day; more importantly, today's 938 new cases is noticeably less than yesterday's reported cases averaged over the four days covered thereby. In even better news, those 938 cases are the lowest single-day new case count since 883 cases were reported on
August 3, 2021. Hospitalization counts are down again, as are all four seven-day averages. In particular, the seven-day cases average is under a thousand cases per day for the first time since last August, and is the lowest since, again, August 3.
Overall, this does seem like good news. On the other hand, there've been way too many times when one day of good info is followed by many days of not-so-good info, and (as noted above) there's some reason to think at least some of today's data is an underreport. And let's not forget that even a thousand new cases a day is still "high" community transmission by the CDC's standards.
The town of Acton's current
Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 12 active and 2,767 cumulative cases as of February 22. 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.
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