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Local COVID-19 updates
Jul. 20th, 2023 05:48 pm( Wall-o-text )
The good news is that overall deaths are still low and hospitalizations are dropping; in fact, for the first time since the pandemic started, the state is reporting zero intubated COVID patients.
The bad news is that, even as test rates continue to slowly decay away, the case rates actually rose (up 14% from last week), and the percent-positive ratio leapt over a full percentage point, from 4.78% last week to 5.83% this week. And the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority wastewater averages are both up over three hundred copies per milliliter again. Even the Boston Globe noticed:
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Yes, those wastewater numbers dropped below one hundred very briefly back in late June. Yes, there's a whole lot of noise in these numbers. And yes, the experts quoted in the Globe story aren't ready to sound any alarms.
But the trend over the last month is pretty clearly upward, which bodes ill for the future.
The good news is that overall deaths are still low and hospitalizations are dropping; in fact, for the first time since the pandemic started, the state is reporting zero intubated COVID patients.
The bad news is that, even as test rates continue to slowly decay away, the case rates actually rose (up 14% from last week), and the percent-positive ratio leapt over a full percentage point, from 4.78% last week to 5.83% this week. And the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority wastewater averages are both up over three hundred copies per milliliter again. Even the Boston Globe noticed:
( Read more... )
Yes, those wastewater numbers dropped below one hundred very briefly back in late June. Yes, there's a whole lot of noise in these numbers. And yes, the experts quoted in the Globe story aren't ready to sound any alarms.
But the trend over the last month is pretty clearly upward, which bodes ill for the future.