Local COVID-19 updates

I'm rebuilding my wall-o-text builder, in large part because the testing numbers keep dropping and I wanted to include seven-day averages, trends, etc. for tests as well as cases, deaths, percent-positive and hospitalizations.

(I also am working on trying to get wastewater numbers, but that code isn't quite ready for prime time yet.)

( Wall-o-text, new version )

Confirmed deaths and cases are down again, along with the current hospitalization counts and the percent-positive rate. Unfortunately, the test counts continue to drop as well; the seven-day average number of tests per day (5,812.9) is at the lowest level since April 6, 2020 (5,782.1), and it's only getting worse every week.

Last year at this time, with roughly the same deaths and hospitalization numbers, we were running around thirty eight thousand tests per day; at that test rate and today's percent-positive ratio, we'd be reporting over a thousand cases per day today. I really don't trust those case numbers anymore.

One other not particularly good milestone: this week, the state surpassed two thousand probable deaths from COVID.

Thirty-three years ago today ...

Today is the thirty-third anniversary of my completing my enlistment in the United States Navy.

I still think that joining the service was the right thing to do at the time. Certainly, leaving the service was the right thing to do at that time.