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Local COVID-19 updates
Feb. 28th, 2022 05:53 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of case data )
Deaths up slightly from Friday, which isn't good. Cases also up from Friday - but the state has been rolling three days of case and testing data into the Monday dashboard. Today's 1,632 newly reported cases is the lowest multiple-day report since 1,243 cases were reported on July 26, 2021. Hospitalizations are down again; today's report of 445 patients in hospital with COVID is the lowest since 439 were reported on August 19, 2021. The four seven-day averages also all ticked down; the percent-positive average in particular is down to 1.89%, the first time below two percent since July 30, 2021.
Overall, this looks like good news. On the other hand, it's a Monday report, and those have been particularly screwy ever since the state gave up reporting on the weekend. (Reports to the state have been irregular on weekends for this entire pandemic, so anything from the state that includes those days inherits the irregularity.)
But the big recent drops in cases, hospitalizations and deaths don't mean the pandemic is over, by any stretch of the imagination:
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I'm still figuring out my own reaction to the new CDC "community level" guidelines. Their county-level report shows every single county in Massachusetts having high or substantial "community transmission" as of February 24 (the last time the data was updated), yet at the same time having low or medium "community level". Under the old masking guidelines, everyone in the state should be masking up in indoor public spaces; under the new guidelines, nobody in the state needs to mask up (although the immunocompromised should talk to their doctors). It's magic!
(I'm also trying to see if there's an API out there that I could use to pull their data automatically. There is a "download" button on the county-level page, but I'm hoping for something that I don't have to manually click to use.)
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 11 active and 2,775 cumulative cases as of February 27. 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 slightly from Friday, which isn't good. Cases also up from Friday - but the state has been rolling three days of case and testing data into the Monday dashboard. Today's 1,632 newly reported cases is the lowest multiple-day report since 1,243 cases were reported on July 26, 2021. Hospitalizations are down again; today's report of 445 patients in hospital with COVID is the lowest since 439 were reported on August 19, 2021. The four seven-day averages also all ticked down; the percent-positive average in particular is down to 1.89%, the first time below two percent since July 30, 2021.
Overall, this looks like good news. On the other hand, it's a Monday report, and those have been particularly screwy ever since the state gave up reporting on the weekend. (Reports to the state have been irregular on weekends for this entire pandemic, so anything from the state that includes those days inherits the irregularity.)
But the big recent drops in cases, hospitalizations and deaths don't mean the pandemic is over, by any stretch of the imagination:
( Read more... )
I'm still figuring out my own reaction to the new CDC "community level" guidelines. Their county-level report shows every single county in Massachusetts having high or substantial "community transmission" as of February 24 (the last time the data was updated), yet at the same time having low or medium "community level". Under the old masking guidelines, everyone in the state should be masking up in indoor public spaces; under the new guidelines, nobody in the state needs to mask up (although the immunocompromised should talk to their doctors). It's magic!
(I'm also trying to see if there's an API out there that I could use to pull their data automatically. There is a "download" button on the county-level page, but I'm hoping for something that I don't have to manually click to use.)
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 11 active and 2,775 cumulative cases as of February 27. 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.