Adventures in vaccination, bivalency edition

Today, I got my third COVID-19 booster vaccination; this one being the Moderna bivalent vaccine, which will hopefully provide good protection from omicron-variant infections as well as supplying death-and-serious-illness defenses.

This time around, I couldn't find an appointment at the local CVS that I got my previous two boosters at; but I did manage to get one at the other CVS in town. (Apparently, they'd just gotten a shipment of Moderna earlier today.) I did have to ask specifically for a new CDC vaccine card (having my original four slots all filled); on the other hand, waiting around for that nicely occupied the "wait to see if you're going to have a horrible reaction" time.

Local COVID-19 updates

( Wall-o-text, covering 7 days of data )

Well, this sucks. The good news is that the number of newly reported deaths (37 over the past week) are down substantially from last week. The bad news is that the number of newly reported cases (7,936) is way up compared to last week, while the hospitalization counts and percent-positive are both up as well. That surge in hospitalizations is showing up in the COVID Community Levels reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; while not yet reflected on their website, their data indicates that half the counties in the state are back to Medium (due to new hospitalizations rising to 11.1 per 100k population).

Meanwhile, the town of Acton's Google Data Studio dashboard is apparently no longer being maintained; there's no link to it anymore on the town's main COVID-19 page and the page is showing a "Data Set Configuration Error" message. Clicking on the "See details" link shows the following text:

Data Studio cannot connect to your data set.

There was a problem fetching data from the underlying Google Sheet.

Error ID: 8489da00

So that's that for the town's reporting, I guess. Sigh.