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Local COVID-19 updates
May. 31st, 2022 05:46 pmIt's the day after a long weekend, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has apparently changed their minds again as to how they'll handle the data:
( Wall-o-text, covering 4 days of case data )
Deaths are down compared to Friday's report. Raw cases are up a lot compared to Friday, but averaged over the four days of case/test data, the numbers are down a bunch. Hospitalizations are also down, which is encouraging; all four seven-day averages are also down, which is even more encouraging.
Much less encouraging: one in five US COVID survivors may develop long COVID:
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Not at all encouraging: COVID death rates soared for older people during the winter Omicron wave:
( Read more... )
I've been jumping on boosters as fast as they get authorized, so I suspect I'm not terribly likely to die if I do catch COVID. But those long-COVID odds are way too high for me to want to take the chance. Thus I'm going to keep maxing my personal precautions until/unless the local case rates go way down. Which hopefully will happen as spring turns into summer, at least around here.
Hopefully.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 33 active and 3,434 cumulative cases as of May 30. 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.
Note: May 31, 2022So the weekend death data isn't going to show up today, they say. Okay then. What do we get?
As a reminder, case and testing data today (May 31) cover data reported Friday through Monday and therefore represent 4 days' worth of data. Deaths reported over the weekend will be included in the Wednesday data.
( Wall-o-text, covering 4 days of case data )
Deaths are down compared to Friday's report. Raw cases are up a lot compared to Friday, but averaged over the four days of case/test data, the numbers are down a bunch. Hospitalizations are also down, which is encouraging; all four seven-day averages are also down, which is even more encouraging.
Much less encouraging: one in five US COVID survivors may develop long COVID:
( Read more... )
Not at all encouraging: COVID death rates soared for older people during the winter Omicron wave:
( Read more... )
I've been jumping on boosters as fast as they get authorized, so I suspect I'm not terribly likely to die if I do catch COVID. But those long-COVID odds are way too high for me to want to take the chance. Thus I'm going to keep maxing my personal precautions until/unless the local case rates go way down. Which hopefully will happen as spring turns into summer, at least around here.
Hopefully.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 33 active and 3,434 cumulative cases as of May 30. 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.