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Local COVID-19 updates
Dec. 8th, 2022 05:35 pm( Wall-o-text, covering 7 days of data )
Well, fuck. Newly confirmed deaths statewide up twenty percent (to 76) from last week; newly confirmed cases up forty-eight percent (to 7,499), and current COVID hospitalizations up almost eighteen percent (to 766). All four seven-day averages are up compared to last week. In maybe-kinda-slightly good news, hospitals statewide are reporting slightly more total hospital beds (8,929 this week versus 8,899 last week), and the number of beds available is also up a tad (458 this week, 409 last week). Still, that's barely five percent of the non-ICU beds statewide actually being available
No good news on the national level either, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now reporting 299 counties (9.29%, representing 13.67% of the population) with High community level; that's up from 182 counties (5.66%, representing 4.84% of the population) last week. That's nearly triple the amount of the US population living in counties where the official CDC guidance is "everyone mask up indoors". Fortunately, for right now at least, none of those almost three hundred counties are in Massachusetts.
Well, fuck. Newly confirmed deaths statewide up twenty percent (to 76) from last week; newly confirmed cases up forty-eight percent (to 7,499), and current COVID hospitalizations up almost eighteen percent (to 766). All four seven-day averages are up compared to last week. In maybe-kinda-slightly good news, hospitals statewide are reporting slightly more total hospital beds (8,929 this week versus 8,899 last week), and the number of beds available is also up a tad (458 this week, 409 last week). Still, that's barely five percent of the non-ICU beds statewide actually being available
No good news on the national level either, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now reporting 299 counties (9.29%, representing 13.67% of the population) with High community level; that's up from 182 counties (5.66%, representing 4.84% of the population) last week. That's nearly triple the amount of the US population living in counties where the official CDC guidance is "everyone mask up indoors". Fortunately, for right now at least, none of those almost three hundred counties are in Massachusetts.