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Local COVID-19 updates
Jul. 6th, 2023 05:33 pm( Wall-o-text )
Newly confirmed deaths are down, which is obviously good; current hospitalizations are also down, which is even better. Cases continue to drop, because tests continue to drop. (Sigh.) Wastewater numbers are still low in absolute terms, but are up substantially compared to last week (and still well above the absolute lows from two years ago).
Earlier this morning, the Boston Globe reported that "COVID-19 waste water numbers reach lowest levels in two years":
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The Globe story is correct in the sense that, yes, the MWRA seven-day averages did dip below one hundred copies per milliliter - briefly - courtesy of the June 20 samples, which were sixty and fifty-four copies per milliliter, respectively, for the southern and northern sewersheds. (See the PDF for specifics; the Mass.gov report only tracks averages, not individual samples.) But, as noted above, the most recent averages are once again up above one hundred.
Newly confirmed deaths are down, which is obviously good; current hospitalizations are also down, which is even better. Cases continue to drop, because tests continue to drop. (Sigh.) Wastewater numbers are still low in absolute terms, but are up substantially compared to last week (and still well above the absolute lows from two years ago).
Earlier this morning, the Boston Globe reported that "COVID-19 waste water numbers reach lowest levels in two years":
( Read more... )
The Globe story is correct in the sense that, yes, the MWRA seven-day averages did dip below one hundred copies per milliliter - briefly - courtesy of the June 20 samples, which were sixty and fifty-four copies per milliliter, respectively, for the southern and northern sewersheds. (See the PDF for specifics; the Mass.gov report only tracks averages, not individual samples.) But, as noted above, the most recent averages are once again up above one hundred.