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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
May. 19th, 2022 05:59 pm( Wall-o-text )
Yuck. Deaths, cases and hospitalizations all up compared to yesterday; today's 866 patients in hospital are the highest that count has been since February 15's report of 882. The seven-day cases average is still messed up due to yesterday's data issues; that being said, the official number is below three thousand for the first time this week, so that's something. Maybe. (The averages for percent-positive and hospitalizations are up again, though.)
The weekly city and town data is out as well; too gloomy to get into.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention haven't yet updated their Community Level map, but their May 19 calculations are available through their data portal. Nationally, the number of counties with High community level is up from 137 last week to 297 this week, and the number with Medium level is up from 456 last week to 483. The vast majority of counties (2444) still have Low level. Great news, right? Not if you factor population into account (which the CDC's page doesn't, but which their data does support). 16.14% of the US population lives in counties with High level, 24.93% in counties with Medium level, and 54.44% in counties with Low level. Another way to look at it: despite the wide swaths of light green on the CDC map, barely half the population lives there. (The Associated Press ran a story yesterday about how federal health officials thought "about a third of the U.S. population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk" - that was clearly based on last week's data.)
The Boston Public Health Commission posted a statement today urging people to take more precautions regarding COVID:
( Read more... )
Alas, and to no surprise whatsoever, said statement didn't include any actual actions (like, say, a mask mandate) being announced.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 59 active and 3,319 cumulative cases as of May 18. The town's COVID-19 Information Center page has a new "COVID Updates - May 2022" section, reading as follows:
( Read more... )
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, cases and hospitalizations all up compared to yesterday; today's 866 patients in hospital are the highest that count has been since February 15's report of 882. The seven-day cases average is still messed up due to yesterday's data issues; that being said, the official number is below three thousand for the first time this week, so that's something. Maybe. (The averages for percent-positive and hospitalizations are up again, though.)
The weekly city and town data is out as well; too gloomy to get into.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention haven't yet updated their Community Level map, but their May 19 calculations are available through their data portal. Nationally, the number of counties with High community level is up from 137 last week to 297 this week, and the number with Medium level is up from 456 last week to 483. The vast majority of counties (2444) still have Low level. Great news, right? Not if you factor population into account (which the CDC's page doesn't, but which their data does support). 16.14% of the US population lives in counties with High level, 24.93% in counties with Medium level, and 54.44% in counties with Low level. Another way to look at it: despite the wide swaths of light green on the CDC map, barely half the population lives there. (The Associated Press ran a story yesterday about how federal health officials thought "about a third of the U.S. population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk" - that was clearly based on last week's data.)
The Boston Public Health Commission posted a statement today urging people to take more precautions regarding COVID:
( Read more... )
Alas, and to no surprise whatsoever, said statement didn't include any actual actions (like, say, a mask mandate) being announced.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 59 active and 3,319 cumulative cases as of May 18. The town's COVID-19 Information Center page has a new "COVID Updates - May 2022" section, reading as follows:
( Read more... )
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.