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Local COVID-19 updates
Mar. 30th, 2022 05:30 pm( Wall-o-text )
Yuck. Deaths are down day-over-day, which is always good to see, but newly reported confirmed cases are up a whopping 42% from yesterday, to 1,252. Hospitalizations are down, but if the case counts keep climbing, that's not going to last. The seven-day averages for cases and percent-positive are both up, with the cases average hitting 750 again and percent-positive now at 2.25%; the hospitalization and death averages are down, but rising case counts will probably change those trajectories in a couple of weeks, as well.
I still haven't been able to find a decent way to programatically read the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority wastewater data; on the other hand, they are currently providing northside and southside graphs since February 2022, which does make it easier to ignore the huge December/January surge and see what the current trends are doing. Both the "Recent North System Viral RNA Signal" and "Recent South System Viral RNA Signal" graphs are showing definite upward trends.
I also recently discovered that Biobot (the company actually doing the work) has a data visualization tool that lets you see county-level wastewater for some (not all) Massachusetts counties. As of today, they are showing the levels of wastewater virus to be clearly rising in Essex, Middlesex and Suffolk Counties, while the levels in Berkshire, Hampshire and Nantucket Counties are on clearly downward trajectories. (They don't list the other eight counties; presumably there aren't any wastewater utilities signed up with them.)
And Biobot also is pushing their datasets to GitHub; I may be able to automate grabbing that info.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 19 active and 2,865 cumulative cases as of March 29. 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.
Yuck. Deaths are down day-over-day, which is always good to see, but newly reported confirmed cases are up a whopping 42% from yesterday, to 1,252. Hospitalizations are down, but if the case counts keep climbing, that's not going to last. The seven-day averages for cases and percent-positive are both up, with the cases average hitting 750 again and percent-positive now at 2.25%; the hospitalization and death averages are down, but rising case counts will probably change those trajectories in a couple of weeks, as well.
I still haven't been able to find a decent way to programatically read the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority wastewater data; on the other hand, they are currently providing northside and southside graphs since February 2022, which does make it easier to ignore the huge December/January surge and see what the current trends are doing. Both the "Recent North System Viral RNA Signal" and "Recent South System Viral RNA Signal" graphs are showing definite upward trends.
I also recently discovered that Biobot (the company actually doing the work) has a data visualization tool that lets you see county-level wastewater for some (not all) Massachusetts counties. As of today, they are showing the levels of wastewater virus to be clearly rising in Essex, Middlesex and Suffolk Counties, while the levels in Berkshire, Hampshire and Nantucket Counties are on clearly downward trajectories. (They don't list the other eight counties; presumably there aren't any wastewater utilities signed up with them.)
And Biobot also is pushing their datasets to GitHub; I may be able to automate grabbing that info.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 19 active and 2,865 cumulative cases as of March 29. 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.