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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 7th, 2022 05:39 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of case data )
An at-best-mixed set of data, complicated further by weekend reporting wonkiness. Deaths down slightly; raw case counts up, but averaged over three days, the count is down compared to Friday. Hospitalizations down again, which is an unblemished bit of good news; today's reported 319 COVID cases is the lowest since 314 were reported on August 9, 2021, when the Delta variant surge was getting underway. In less happy news, the seven-day average for newly reported cases is up compared to what was reported Friday; fortunately, the other three seven-day averages are all down.
No update today to the U.S. COVID-19 Community Levels by County Map from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; guess that's going to be an weekly-on-Fridays thing? I do notice a change to the header on the old COVID-19 Integrated County View page, though:
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 13 active and 2,793 cumulative cases as of March 6. 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. (As of today, the town's COVID-19 Information Center page still headlines the December 22, 2021 townwide indoor mask mandate, even though that mandate was lifted as of February 24, 2022.)
An at-best-mixed set of data, complicated further by weekend reporting wonkiness. Deaths down slightly; raw case counts up, but averaged over three days, the count is down compared to Friday. Hospitalizations down again, which is an unblemished bit of good news; today's reported 319 COVID cases is the lowest since 314 were reported on August 9, 2021, when the Delta variant surge was getting underway. In less happy news, the seven-day average for newly reported cases is up compared to what was reported Friday; fortunately, the other three seven-day averages are all down.
No update today to the U.S. COVID-19 Community Levels by County Map from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; guess that's going to be an weekly-on-Fridays thing? I do notice a change to the header on the old COVID-19 Integrated County View page, though:
Use CDC's COVID-19 Community Levels to determine the impact of COVID-19 on communities and take action. Community Transmission levels are provided for healthcare facility use only. Check back soon for COVID Data Tracker updates incorporating COVID-19 Community Levels.That's ... interesting, especially as Middlesex County is simultaneously at a high "level of community transmission" and a low "community level". Unsurprising, given the definitions and today's 108.46 7-day case rate per 100k population, 2.0% COVID inpatient bed utilization and 6 COVID hospital admissions per 100k over the previous seven days; but it goes to show just how much the new "community level" definitions are giving up on trying to reduce cases and concentrate on protecting hospitals. I am not at all impressed.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 13 active and 2,793 cumulative cases as of March 6. 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. (As of today, the town's COVID-19 Information Center page still headlines the December 22, 2021 townwide indoor mask mandate, even though that mandate was lifted as of February 24, 2022.)