Local COVID-19 updates

A warning from the Commonwealth: No update this coming Monday due to Juneteenth:

Please note: the daily COVID-19 Interactive Data Dashboard will not be posted on Monday, June 20, the observance day of Juneteenth. Data from Friday, June 17 to Monday, June 20 will be included in the dashboard published on Tuesday, June 21.

Given that heads-up for next week, what do we see at the end of this week?

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Deaths up by one compared to yesterday, but cases and hospitalizations both down. Seven-day averages for cases and hospitalizations are also both down, but that for percent-positive ticked upward. In somewhat hopeful news, for the first time in months, not every county in Massachusetts has the worst-case "High" COVID community transmission level, with Nantucket County dropping to "Substantial" transmission as their rate dropped to 96.5 weekly cases per 100k population.

In definitely good news, the Food and Drug Adminstration today approved COVID vaccines for kids older than six months:
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The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 20 active and 3,559 cumulative cases as of June 16. 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.