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Local COVID-19 updates
May. 13th, 2022 05:32 pm( Wall-o-text )
The day-to-day comparisons seem good, with deaths and cases both down compared to yesterday, and hospitalizations only up slightly. However, the last few weeks appear to me to be much noisier day-over-day than they used to be, and today's 4,654 newly reported confirmed cases are way higher than last Friday's 3,836. (In fact, today's cases are the highest Friday report since 7,181 were reported on January 28.) The four seven-day averages are also all up compared to yesterday, or last week, or the week before that.
Oh, and we've got yet another new Omicron variant (BA.2.12.1) taking over in Massachusetts:
( Read more... )
Oh, joy.
Meanwhile, the Boston Globe finally noticed that Massachusetts is up to eleven counties with high COVID levels (in an article timestamped 12:05PM today):
( Read more... )
Of course the state is "monitoring the situation". That sounds so much more impressive than "sitting on our hands doing nothing". Granted, back when I was in the Navy, "looking concerned" was the Reactor Operator's proper immediate action for most ship's casualties - but only because there was nothing I could do to address something like flooding in the Torpedo Room, or even a lube-oil leak in Shaft Alley. There's quite a bit the Governor could do, and AFAICT he's doing none of it. Sigh.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 71 active and 3,240 cumulative cases as of May 12; the 71 active cases are the most the town has reported since February 5. 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.
The day-to-day comparisons seem good, with deaths and cases both down compared to yesterday, and hospitalizations only up slightly. However, the last few weeks appear to me to be much noisier day-over-day than they used to be, and today's 4,654 newly reported confirmed cases are way higher than last Friday's 3,836. (In fact, today's cases are the highest Friday report since 7,181 were reported on January 28.) The four seven-day averages are also all up compared to yesterday, or last week, or the week before that.
Oh, and we've got yet another new Omicron variant (BA.2.12.1) taking over in Massachusetts:
( Read more... )
Oh, joy.
Meanwhile, the Boston Globe finally noticed that Massachusetts is up to eleven counties with high COVID levels (in an article timestamped 12:05PM today):
( Read more... )
Of course the state is "monitoring the situation". That sounds so much more impressive than "sitting on our hands doing nothing". Granted, back when I was in the Navy, "looking concerned" was the Reactor Operator's proper immediate action for most ship's casualties - but only because there was nothing I could do to address something like flooding in the Torpedo Room, or even a lube-oil leak in Shaft Alley. There's quite a bit the Governor could do, and AFAICT he's doing none of it. Sigh.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 71 active and 3,240 cumulative cases as of May 12; the 71 active cases are the most the town has reported since February 5. 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.