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Local COVID-19 updates
Sep. 29th, 2022 05:27 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 7 days of data )
So ... there's actually a bit of good news from today's statewide numbers, in that both confirmed cases and confirmed deaths are down - slightly - compared to last week. On the other hand, hospitalizations are up a bunch, as are probable deaths and cases. And nine thousand plus cases a week really isn't anything to celebrate. Neither is the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now showing Berkshire County as having high COVID community level. (Per CDC guidance, everyone in counties with high community level should be masking in public indoor spaces and on public transportation. Not that I expect anyone in the state government to actually issue do something, like perhaps issue a mask mandate, in response to this.)
Frankly, I wasn't looking forward to today's numbers, given today's Boston Globe story about big jumps in wastewater coronavirus levels and confirmed COVID-19 cases among children and teenagers in Massachusetts:
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Will those jumps in wastewater levels translate into even higher case counts in the next few weeks? At this point, damned if I know. Every time I think I know where this pandemic (or is it now just an epidemic?) is going, it goes somewhere else.
So ... there's actually a bit of good news from today's statewide numbers, in that both confirmed cases and confirmed deaths are down - slightly - compared to last week. On the other hand, hospitalizations are up a bunch, as are probable deaths and cases. And nine thousand plus cases a week really isn't anything to celebrate. Neither is the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now showing Berkshire County as having high COVID community level. (Per CDC guidance, everyone in counties with high community level should be masking in public indoor spaces and on public transportation. Not that I expect anyone in the state government to actually issue do something, like perhaps issue a mask mandate, in response to this.)
Frankly, I wasn't looking forward to today's numbers, given today's Boston Globe story about big jumps in wastewater coronavirus levels and confirmed COVID-19 cases among children and teenagers in Massachusetts:
( Read more... )
Will those jumps in wastewater levels translate into even higher case counts in the next few weeks? At this point, damned if I know. Every time I think I know where this pandemic (or is it now just an epidemic?) is going, it goes somewhere else.