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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 4th, 2022 05:39 pm( Wall-o-text )
Deaths, cases and hospitalization counts are all down compared to yesterday, which is cretainly encouraging. The seven-day percent-positive average ticked up slightly, but it's still only 1.82% which implies there's still more than enough testing being reported to have some confidence in the numbers. The other three seven-day averages are all down.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have updated their COVID-19 Community Levels by County map, with data as of March 3. That's showing every county in Massachusetts except Hampshire as having a low "COVID-19 Community Level", even though every county in Massachusetts also has either a sustained or high "Level of Community Transmission" according to the current COVID-19 Integrated County View. Of course, that's due to the "COVID-19 Community Level" definitions being much more focused on hospital utilization due to COVID (which is relatively low in Massachusetts) and much less on cases (which are still a lot higher than last summer). I'm absolutely in favor of not having hospitals overwhelmed with COVID cases, but I do wish the CDC was interested in guidelines for individual protective action as well ...
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 13 active and 2,789 cumulative cases as of March 3. 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, cases and hospitalization counts are all down compared to yesterday, which is cretainly encouraging. The seven-day percent-positive average ticked up slightly, but it's still only 1.82% which implies there's still more than enough testing being reported to have some confidence in the numbers. The other three seven-day averages are all down.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have updated their COVID-19 Community Levels by County map, with data as of March 3. That's showing every county in Massachusetts except Hampshire as having a low "COVID-19 Community Level", even though every county in Massachusetts also has either a sustained or high "Level of Community Transmission" according to the current COVID-19 Integrated County View. Of course, that's due to the "COVID-19 Community Level" definitions being much more focused on hospital utilization due to COVID (which is relatively low in Massachusetts) and much less on cases (which are still a lot higher than last summer). I'm absolutely in favor of not having hospitals overwhelmed with COVID cases, but I do wish the CDC was interested in guidelines for individual protective action as well ...
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 13 active and 2,789 cumulative cases as of March 3. 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.