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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 29th, 2022 05:18 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of death data )
Not good news at all. Raw deaths are up, which is to be expected given today's report covers three days; however, even averaged over three days, today's deaths are higher than yesterday's (single-day) report. Raw case counts are down, which is again to be expected given yesterday's report covered three days; however, today's cases are higher again than yesterday's numbers averaged over their three days of coverage. At least hospitalizations are down. The seven-day average for newly confirmed cases is down as well, but the percent-positive average is up again. The overall trend, in Massachusetts at least, still looks like cases and percent-positive moving upwards, which bodes ill for the near future.
Meanwhile, the media (or at least the Boston Globe) is begining to notice that cases have been ticking upwards locally again:
( Read more... )
That article came out this afternoon, before today's state report. Glad to see someone besides myself is at least looking concerned.
In COVID vaccine news today, the Food and Drug Administration has authorized second booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for folks who are over 50 or are immunocompromised:
( Read more... )
I got my (first) booster back on November 15, 2021, which was ... four and a half months ago. Hmmm.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 11 active and 2,852 cumulative cases as of March 28. In 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.
Not good news at all. Raw deaths are up, which is to be expected given today's report covers three days; however, even averaged over three days, today's deaths are higher than yesterday's (single-day) report. Raw case counts are down, which is again to be expected given yesterday's report covered three days; however, today's cases are higher again than yesterday's numbers averaged over their three days of coverage. At least hospitalizations are down. The seven-day average for newly confirmed cases is down as well, but the percent-positive average is up again. The overall trend, in Massachusetts at least, still looks like cases and percent-positive moving upwards, which bodes ill for the near future.
Meanwhile, the media (or at least the Boston Globe) is begining to notice that cases have been ticking upwards locally again:
( Read more... )
That article came out this afternoon, before today's state report. Glad to see someone besides myself is at least looking concerned.
In COVID vaccine news today, the Food and Drug Administration has authorized second booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for folks who are over 50 or are immunocompromised:
( Read more... )
I got my (first) booster back on November 15, 2021, which was ... four and a half months ago. Hmmm.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 11 active and 2,852 cumulative cases as of March 28. In 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.