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Local (and not-so-local) COVID-19 updates
Jun. 8th, 2022 05:27 pm( Wall-o-text )
Mostly good news on the day-over-day comparisons. The 16 newly reported deaths today are fewer than the 18 reported yesterday, but yesterday covered three days; today's report is much higher than the average over those three days. On the other hand, newly reported cases and hospitalizations are down, as are the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive. Overall, things are noticably better than a couple of weeks ago, and far, far worse than this time last year.
In hopefully good news, Moderna announced today that their new bivalent COVID vaccine provides even better protection against the Omicron variant than their original:
( Read more... )
Unfortunately, the study wasn't designed to measure effectiveness against infection, only against severe illness and death. But even better protection against said severe illness and death is still a Good Thing.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 25 active and 3,509 cumulative cases as of June 7. 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.
Mostly good news on the day-over-day comparisons. The 16 newly reported deaths today are fewer than the 18 reported yesterday, but yesterday covered three days; today's report is much higher than the average over those three days. On the other hand, newly reported cases and hospitalizations are down, as are the seven-day averages for cases, hospitalizations and percent-positive. Overall, things are noticably better than a couple of weeks ago, and far, far worse than this time last year.
In hopefully good news, Moderna announced today that their new bivalent COVID vaccine provides even better protection against the Omicron variant than their original:
( Read more... )
Unfortunately, the study wasn't designed to measure effectiveness against infection, only against severe illness and death. But even better protection against said severe illness and death is still a Good Thing.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 25 active and 3,509 cumulative cases as of June 7. 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.