The Commonwealth added the following notice to today's daily dashboard:
SPECIAL NOTE: The data report today (2/24) reflects higher numbers than usual, due to a systems issue that temporarily interrupted reporting from several hospital systems yesterday. The issue has been resolved and the missing data has been included in today’s dashboard.
( Wall-o-text )Day-over-day news is ... mixed, shall we say. (Of course, that might be due to yesterday's aforementioned "systems issue".) Deaths are down but cases are way, way up. Hospitalizations continue to trend downward. Three of the four seven-day averages (cases, hospitalizations, and percent-positive) are down, while the fourth (deaths) ticked up a bit.
The city/town data, on the other hand, is showing definite improvement. Granted, the state has long since given up on reporting its own risk color codes; however, if they still did so, there would only be 83 communities still in the highest "red" risk category (down from 183 last week), and
that's good news.
Worth noting from a local perspective: yesterday, the town
rescinded its indoor mask mandate effective today:
( Read more... )Meanwhile, theres's a new Omicron variant floating around, currently labeled BA.2 and popularly known as "
stealth omicron":
( Read more... )Obviously, this is the
perfect time to be dropping mask mandates and other non-pharmaceutical interventions. Right? </sarcasm>
The town of Acton's current
Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 10 active and 2,768 cumulative cases as of February 23. 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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