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Local COVID-19 updates
Aug. 4th, 2022 05:50 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 7 days of data )
Week-over-week, deaths are up slightly while cases and hospitalizations are down slightly. All four seven-day averages are slightly lower than they were last week. However, we're still at nearly ten thousand cases per week, which is way too high for my liking. At least it's not going up?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention don't appear to incorporated the new Massachusetts data into their COVID Community Level metrics (they're showing 11,075 combined confirmed and probable cases, which was last week's number). Still, half the counties in Massachusetts are running over ten new hospitalizations per week per 100k population, putting them firmly in the Medium community level. Also, since today's state case counts aren't all that much below last week's, I suspect the community transmission levels won't chage once the CDC updates those figures.
There's no sign of things changing any time in the near future, either, according to STAT News:
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My takeaway from that article: our vaccines are really good at preventing severe acute illness and death once you're infected, but not so good at preventing infections in the first place. Since we've basically given up on mitigation strategies, that means boatloads of infections, currently well over a hundred thousand per day in the US; and even a small percentage of that means a lot of deaths.
There wasn't much discussion of long COVID in that article, although they do link to an earlier piece ('There's no one long Covid': Experts struggle to make sense of the continuing mystery), whose title pretty well sums up the contents. With long COVID estimates ranging anywhere from 20% to 50% of COVID patients, I'll be keeping my masks on in indoor public spaces (at least, in areas of high transmission - like nearly the entire US) for the foreseeable future.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 5 active and 3,795 cumulative cases as of August 3; the cumulative count has held steady since August 1. 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.
Week-over-week, deaths are up slightly while cases and hospitalizations are down slightly. All four seven-day averages are slightly lower than they were last week. However, we're still at nearly ten thousand cases per week, which is way too high for my liking. At least it's not going up?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention don't appear to incorporated the new Massachusetts data into their COVID Community Level metrics (they're showing 11,075 combined confirmed and probable cases, which was last week's number). Still, half the counties in Massachusetts are running over ten new hospitalizations per week per 100k population, putting them firmly in the Medium community level. Also, since today's state case counts aren't all that much below last week's, I suspect the community transmission levels won't chage once the CDC updates those figures.
There's no sign of things changing any time in the near future, either, according to STAT News:
( Read more... )
My takeaway from that article: our vaccines are really good at preventing severe acute illness and death once you're infected, but not so good at preventing infections in the first place. Since we've basically given up on mitigation strategies, that means boatloads of infections, currently well over a hundred thousand per day in the US; and even a small percentage of that means a lot of deaths.
There wasn't much discussion of long COVID in that article, although they do link to an earlier piece ('There's no one long Covid': Experts struggle to make sense of the continuing mystery), whose title pretty well sums up the contents. With long COVID estimates ranging anywhere from 20% to 50% of COVID patients, I'll be keeping my masks on in indoor public spaces (at least, in areas of high transmission - like nearly the entire US) for the foreseeable future.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 5 active and 3,795 cumulative cases as of August 3; the cumulative count has held steady since August 1. 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.