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Local COVID-19 updates
Sep. 8th, 2022 05:52 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 7 days of data )
Overall, the slow but steady decline in cases continues; today's 6,623 newly reported cases over the course of the last seven days is the first time we've been below seven thousand since the state shifted to once-per-week reporting, and the first time since March 30 that a seven-day trailing average of newly reported cases was below one thousand. Not so good news regarding deaths, however, as today's 57 newly reported deaths are up for the third week in a row (and are the highest since the once-per-week reporting shift). Hopefully that trend will start to reverse in the next few weeks, as hospitalizations are down compared to last week. The downtick in hospitalizations is why all fourteen Massachusetts counties have a COVID Community Level of "Low" in the latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (although most of Massachusetts still has high community transmission numbers).
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 16 active and 3,892 cumulative cases as of August 28 (eleven days ago), 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.
Overall, the slow but steady decline in cases continues; today's 6,623 newly reported cases over the course of the last seven days is the first time we've been below seven thousand since the state shifted to once-per-week reporting, and the first time since March 30 that a seven-day trailing average of newly reported cases was below one thousand. Not so good news regarding deaths, however, as today's 57 newly reported deaths are up for the third week in a row (and are the highest since the once-per-week reporting shift). Hopefully that trend will start to reverse in the next few weeks, as hospitalizations are down compared to last week. The downtick in hospitalizations is why all fourteen Massachusetts counties have a COVID Community Level of "Low" in the latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (although most of Massachusetts still has high community transmission numbers).
The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 16 active and 3,892 cumulative cases as of August 28 (eleven days ago), 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.