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Local COVID-19 updates
Jun. 27th, 2022 05:53 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of case data )
Coming off the weekend, the new data is at best a mixed bag. Day-over-day death counts are down slightly. Cases in raw numbers are up but are down when averaged over three days; still, today's 3,491 newly reported cases average out to over eleven hundred per day, and that's still too damn many. Hospitalizations also ticked by one. The seven-day averages for cases and hospitalizations are up, while those for percent-positive and deaths are down.
And the latest news about the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants continues to be concerning:
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I don't agree with the claim that Massachusetts' current case numbers are "pretty stable and pretty low" - they're certainly not low compared to this time last year (when the seven-day case average was running below one hundred), and every county in the state save Nantucket is still seeing high community transmission according to the latest CDC numbers. The professionals do seem to be convinced that existing vaccines continue to protect against severe disease and death, which is certainly good news. But this damn pandemic is not going away any time soon.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 25 active and 3,602 cumulative cases as of June 25. 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.
Coming off the weekend, the new data is at best a mixed bag. Day-over-day death counts are down slightly. Cases in raw numbers are up but are down when averaged over three days; still, today's 3,491 newly reported cases average out to over eleven hundred per day, and that's still too damn many. Hospitalizations also ticked by one. The seven-day averages for cases and hospitalizations are up, while those for percent-positive and deaths are down.
And the latest news about the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants continues to be concerning:
( Read more... )
I don't agree with the claim that Massachusetts' current case numbers are "pretty stable and pretty low" - they're certainly not low compared to this time last year (when the seven-day case average was running below one hundred), and every county in the state save Nantucket is still seeing high community transmission according to the latest CDC numbers. The professionals do seem to be convinced that existing vaccines continue to protect against severe disease and death, which is certainly good news. But this damn pandemic is not going away any time soon.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 25 active and 3,602 cumulative cases as of June 25. 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.