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Local COVID-19 updates
Jul. 5th, 2022 05:44 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 4 days of case data and 4 days of death data )
Given that yesterday was the Fourth of July, and thus today's report supposedly covers four days of case and death reporting, it's no surprise that the raw numbers of deaths and cases are up compared to Friday; given that today's report covers four days which includes weekends, it's no surprise that today's numbers averaged over those four days are lower than Friday's. Hospitalizations are up, however, and that's not good news at any time. Seven-day averages for cases are down compared to Friday, but still over a thousand (which is awful), while averages for hospitalizations and percent-positive are both up.
The Fourth of July (specifically the celebratory gatherings) may have been a superspreader event this year:
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Oh, yay. Just what we needed.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 19 active and 3,647 cumulative cases as of July 4; the current case count jumped to as high as 35 on July 2. 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.
Given that yesterday was the Fourth of July, and thus today's report supposedly covers four days of case and death reporting, it's no surprise that the raw numbers of deaths and cases are up compared to Friday; given that today's report covers four days which includes weekends, it's no surprise that today's numbers averaged over those four days are lower than Friday's. Hospitalizations are up, however, and that's not good news at any time. Seven-day averages for cases are down compared to Friday, but still over a thousand (which is awful), while averages for hospitalizations and percent-positive are both up.
The Fourth of July (specifically the celebratory gatherings) may have been a superspreader event this year:
( Read more... )
Oh, yay. Just what we needed.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 19 active and 3,647 cumulative cases as of July 4; the current case count jumped to as high as 35 on July 2. 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.