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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Mar. 15th, 2022 05:29 pmToday's state dashboard includes the following reminder:
( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of death data )
Day-to-day raw deaths up, but today covers three days of deaths reporting, so that's as expected; averaged over three days, the count is down; given weekend reporting wonkiness, who really knows what the trend is? Day-to-day raw cases down, which one would hope given that yesterday covered three days. Hospitalizations continue marching downward, which is unabashedly good news. Three of the four seven-day averages are down compared to yesterday's report; the fourth (percent-positive) is up a miniscule amount. Overall, decent news.
In not-so-good news, the Federal Government is scaling back its COVID response plans because Congress can't get its act together on funding:
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Of course the Republicans are against COVID spending. The pandemic is over in the red states, isn't it? </sarcasm>
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 9 active and 2,804 cumulative cases as of March 14. 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.
March 15, 2022 noticeSo there you go. What other surprises do we get this Ides of March?
Today's data on COVID-19 deaths: As announced last week, today's dashboard (3/15) reflects an updated surveillance definition used to count COVID-associated deaths, adopted following guidance from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists which recommended a standardized approach to counting COVID deaths. The new definition decreases the total number of deaths reported by 3,770.
( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of death data )
Day-to-day raw deaths up, but today covers three days of deaths reporting, so that's as expected; averaged over three days, the count is down; given weekend reporting wonkiness, who really knows what the trend is? Day-to-day raw cases down, which one would hope given that yesterday covered three days. Hospitalizations continue marching downward, which is unabashedly good news. Three of the four seven-day averages are down compared to yesterday's report; the fourth (percent-positive) is up a miniscule amount. Overall, decent news.
In not-so-good news, the Federal Government is scaling back its COVID response plans because Congress can't get its act together on funding:
( Read more... )
Of course the Republicans are against COVID spending. The pandemic is over in the red states, isn't it? </sarcasm>
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 9 active and 2,804 cumulative cases as of March 14. 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.