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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 16th, 2022 05:28 pm( Wall-o-text )
Whoops. Raw deaths down compared to yesterday, but yesterday's numbers covered three days; averaged over those three days, today's report is up quite a bit (14 vs 5.3). Cases are also up a bunch. Worse, hospitalizations ticked up slightly. At least all four seven-day averages are down.
I don't have any nice way of analyzing the most recent wastewater data from the sampling of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's Deer Island treatment plant effluent (there may be a freely available PDF parser out there but I haven't found it yet). On the other hand, just looking at the numbers shows that the seven-day averages for both the north and south sides of the system were down around 100 copies/mL at the end of February and the beginning of March but are now up around 120-140. (Last June, the averages were down in the teens and twenties; back in January, these numbers peaked in the 8k-10k range.) Yes, these levels are much lower than at the beginning of the year. However, upward trends here are not good news...
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 13 active and 2,808 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.
Whoops. Raw deaths down compared to yesterday, but yesterday's numbers covered three days; averaged over those three days, today's report is up quite a bit (14 vs 5.3). Cases are also up a bunch. Worse, hospitalizations ticked up slightly. At least all four seven-day averages are down.
I don't have any nice way of analyzing the most recent wastewater data from the sampling of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's Deer Island treatment plant effluent (there may be a freely available PDF parser out there but I haven't found it yet). On the other hand, just looking at the numbers shows that the seven-day averages for both the north and south sides of the system were down around 100 copies/mL at the end of February and the beginning of March but are now up around 120-140. (Last June, the averages were down in the teens and twenties; back in January, these numbers peaked in the 8k-10k range.) Yes, these levels are much lower than at the beginning of the year. However, upward trends here are not good news...
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 13 active and 2,808 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.