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Local COVID-19 updates
Apr. 15th, 2022 05:43 pm( Wall-o-text )
Hey, cases are actually down compared to yesterday! Of course, they're still way, way up compared to, say, last week, or two weeks ago, or even two months ago; today's 2,470 newly reported confirmed cases are the highest Friday report since 2,499 were reported on February 11. Deaths are up, which isn't good (but it's still a small enough number that there's a lot of noise); hospitalizations are also up again, which is really not good (especially as the hospitals are also full of non-COVID patients; only 6.8% of all non-ICU beds are open, according to the state's report). The seven-day averages are also all up compared to yesterday.
I noted yesterday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had, as I'd been predicting, raised the "COVID Community Level" of three counties in Massachusetts to "Medium". The Boston Globe, at least, finally noticed this afternoon:
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I am, alas, not particularly surprised that the state's response is basically "yay vaccines", along with Looking Concerned.
The CDC's community level definitions put counties in the High level when they're averaging both over 200 new cases and 10 hospitalizations per 100k population over the past seven days. Massachusetts doesn't provide handy breakouts by county in their daily download, but 10 hospitalizations per 100k population statewide would correspond to a average daily census of just under 700. Tripling today's hospitalization average would put us squarely over that mark; that seems like a lot, but we've nearly tripled the case rate since the start of this surge in mid-March, and cases keep soaring upward. Given another couple of weeks, I suspect we're going to see some High "Community Level" reports. I wish I thought for a moment that Governor Charlie Baker will do anything once that happens.
Oh, and Monday is Patriots Day here in Massachusetts (celebrating the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775). It's a state holiday, so presumably they won't post a report until Tuesday.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 22 active and 2,951 cumulative cases as of April 14; looks like they fixed whatever was causing their "Data Set Configuration Error". 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.
Hey, cases are actually down compared to yesterday! Of course, they're still way, way up compared to, say, last week, or two weeks ago, or even two months ago; today's 2,470 newly reported confirmed cases are the highest Friday report since 2,499 were reported on February 11. Deaths are up, which isn't good (but it's still a small enough number that there's a lot of noise); hospitalizations are also up again, which is really not good (especially as the hospitals are also full of non-COVID patients; only 6.8% of all non-ICU beds are open, according to the state's report). The seven-day averages are also all up compared to yesterday.
I noted yesterday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had, as I'd been predicting, raised the "COVID Community Level" of three counties in Massachusetts to "Medium". The Boston Globe, at least, finally noticed this afternoon:
( Read more... )
I am, alas, not particularly surprised that the state's response is basically "yay vaccines", along with Looking Concerned.
The CDC's community level definitions put counties in the High level when they're averaging both over 200 new cases and 10 hospitalizations per 100k population over the past seven days. Massachusetts doesn't provide handy breakouts by county in their daily download, but 10 hospitalizations per 100k population statewide would correspond to a average daily census of just under 700. Tripling today's hospitalization average would put us squarely over that mark; that seems like a lot, but we've nearly tripled the case rate since the start of this surge in mid-March, and cases keep soaring upward. Given another couple of weeks, I suspect we're going to see some High "Community Level" reports. I wish I thought for a moment that Governor Charlie Baker will do anything once that happens.
Oh, and Monday is Patriots Day here in Massachusetts (celebrating the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775). It's a state holiday, so presumably they won't post a report until Tuesday.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 22 active and 2,951 cumulative cases as of April 14; looks like they fixed whatever was causing their "Data Set Configuration Error". 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.