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Local COVID-19 updates
Aug. 11th, 2022 06:04 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 7 days of data )
Well, today's statewide numbers aren't great, but they do show a bit of improvement compared to last week and the week before, so that's something. Fewer confirmed deaths and cases were reported this past week compared to last, while hospitalization counts held steady. The seven-day averages are a mixed bag, with cases and hospitalizations down while deaths and percent-positive are up. That being said, the 8,950 newly reported cases are still way, way too high for my liking; that's an average of 1,278.6 new cases per day. The statewide confirmed death total is up to 19,978; we'll almost certainly be cracking the twenty-thousand-death threshold next week.
Not that I really needed proof of this, but an as-yet-unreviewed preprint study shows that Massachusetts schools that kept mask requirements in place back in February had significantly lower COVID case rates that schools that dropped the requirements:
( Read more... )
Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced changes to their recommendations, scrapping the recommendation for close contacts of infected people to self-quarantine:
( Read more... )
I'm not sure relaxing controls even more makes as much sense as the CDC implies, especially with practically the entire country having high community transmission levels, and nearly half the population living in counties with high "community level". But I suppose the new guidance is in line with what most people appear to be already doing. (The last big change to the CDC guidance was back in February, when they came up with the whole "community level" thing.)
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 8 active and 3,817 cumulative cases as of August 10; the cumulative count has held steady since August 7. 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.
Well, today's statewide numbers aren't great, but they do show a bit of improvement compared to last week and the week before, so that's something. Fewer confirmed deaths and cases were reported this past week compared to last, while hospitalization counts held steady. The seven-day averages are a mixed bag, with cases and hospitalizations down while deaths and percent-positive are up. That being said, the 8,950 newly reported cases are still way, way too high for my liking; that's an average of 1,278.6 new cases per day. The statewide confirmed death total is up to 19,978; we'll almost certainly be cracking the twenty-thousand-death threshold next week.
Not that I really needed proof of this, but an as-yet-unreviewed preprint study shows that Massachusetts schools that kept mask requirements in place back in February had significantly lower COVID case rates that schools that dropped the requirements:
( Read more... )
Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced changes to their recommendations, scrapping the recommendation for close contacts of infected people to self-quarantine:
( Read more... )
I'm not sure relaxing controls even more makes as much sense as the CDC implies, especially with practically the entire country having high community transmission levels, and nearly half the population living in counties with high "community level". But I suppose the new guidance is in line with what most people appear to be already doing. (The last big change to the CDC guidance was back in February, when they came up with the whole "community level" thing.)
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 8 active and 3,817 cumulative cases as of August 10; the cumulative count has held steady since August 7. 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.