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Local COVID-19 updates
Jun. 16th, 2022 05:13 pm( Wall-o-text )
It's Thursday, which means day-to-day comparisons don't have to account for multiple-day reports. So deaths really are down compared to yesterday, cases are really up, and hospitalizations are clearly down; at 478, that's the first time since May 2 that the hospitalization count was reported below five hundred. All four seven-day averages are down compared to yesterday, and to last week, for that matter.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did update their COVID-19 Community Level numbers today. The good news in Massachusetts is that there is now only one county in the state (Hampden) with High community level, two (Dukes and Hampshire) with Medium, and the remaining eleven (including the most populous counties of Middlesex and Suffolk) with Low. Middlesex, Norfolk and Suffolk were all at the High level last week and had been there for several weeks running; for all three, weekly case counts dropped below 200 per 100k and weekly new hospitalizations dropped (barely) below 10 per 100k. The entire state still has high community transmission (along with almost the entire nation), which under the old CDC guidelines was enough to recommend indoor mask wearing for all; alas, the CDC has given up on that recommendation.
Me? I might consider skipping the indoor public masking when the local community transmission level gets down to moderate or low levels - eg, less than fifty new cases per 100k population per week. Needless to say, the state is still way, way above that level.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 26 active and 3,566 cumulative cases as of June 15. 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.
It's Thursday, which means day-to-day comparisons don't have to account for multiple-day reports. So deaths really are down compared to yesterday, cases are really up, and hospitalizations are clearly down; at 478, that's the first time since May 2 that the hospitalization count was reported below five hundred. All four seven-day averages are down compared to yesterday, and to last week, for that matter.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did update their COVID-19 Community Level numbers today. The good news in Massachusetts is that there is now only one county in the state (Hampden) with High community level, two (Dukes and Hampshire) with Medium, and the remaining eleven (including the most populous counties of Middlesex and Suffolk) with Low. Middlesex, Norfolk and Suffolk were all at the High level last week and had been there for several weeks running; for all three, weekly case counts dropped below 200 per 100k and weekly new hospitalizations dropped (barely) below 10 per 100k. The entire state still has high community transmission (along with almost the entire nation), which under the old CDC guidelines was enough to recommend indoor mask wearing for all; alas, the CDC has given up on that recommendation.
Me? I might consider skipping the indoor public masking when the local community transmission level gets down to moderate or low levels - eg, less than fifty new cases per 100k population per week. Needless to say, the state is still way, way above that level.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 26 active and 3,566 cumulative cases as of June 15. 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.