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Local COVID-19 updates
Aug. 25th, 2022 06:20 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 7 days of data )
Deaths are down noticeably from last Thursday; newly reported cases are down slightly, but are still IMHO awfully high at 7,952. Hospitalization counts crept up slightly compared to last Thursday as well. The seven-day averages for caess and deaths are down, while that for hospitalizations is up a bit and that for percent-positive held steady. (The state also hit an unhappy milestone, breaking the two-million-cases mark with 2,005,250 combined confirmed and probable cases recorded.)
Both the COVID-19 Community Level and Community Transmission levels reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are slowly improving, at least as far as Massachusetts is concerned, with the entire state down to a COVID-19 Community Level of Low, Dukes and Norfolk Counties dropping their community transmission levels to Substantial and Nantucket County actually getting down to a community transmission level of Moderate. (Which, under the CDC guidelines as of July 27, 2021, is a low enough level that fully vaccinated folks could safely be unmasked in public. Of course, under the most recent guidance, the Low community level means the entire state is in the mask-free party zone.)
Overall, it looks like Massachusetts is seeing more-or-less steady slow reductions in deaths and cases. The declines are clearly good, but the absolute levels are still a whole lot higher than I'd like to see.
I'm not the only one concerned; back on Monday, the Globe reported that a coalition of health leaders called for stepping up COVID plans this winter:
( Read more... )
Of course, the Baker administration couldn't be arsed to comment.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 11 active and 3,864 cumulative cases as of August 22, and has not been updated since. 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.
Deaths are down noticeably from last Thursday; newly reported cases are down slightly, but are still IMHO awfully high at 7,952. Hospitalization counts crept up slightly compared to last Thursday as well. The seven-day averages for caess and deaths are down, while that for hospitalizations is up a bit and that for percent-positive held steady. (The state also hit an unhappy milestone, breaking the two-million-cases mark with 2,005,250 combined confirmed and probable cases recorded.)
Both the COVID-19 Community Level and Community Transmission levels reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are slowly improving, at least as far as Massachusetts is concerned, with the entire state down to a COVID-19 Community Level of Low, Dukes and Norfolk Counties dropping their community transmission levels to Substantial and Nantucket County actually getting down to a community transmission level of Moderate. (Which, under the CDC guidelines as of July 27, 2021, is a low enough level that fully vaccinated folks could safely be unmasked in public. Of course, under the most recent guidance, the Low community level means the entire state is in the mask-free party zone.)
Overall, it looks like Massachusetts is seeing more-or-less steady slow reductions in deaths and cases. The declines are clearly good, but the absolute levels are still a whole lot higher than I'd like to see.
I'm not the only one concerned; back on Monday, the Globe reported that a coalition of health leaders called for stepping up COVID plans this winter:
( Read more... )
Of course, the Baker administration couldn't be arsed to comment.
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 11 active and 3,864 cumulative cases as of August 22, and has not been updated since. 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.