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Local COVID-19 updates
Sep. 14th, 2023 05:27 pm( Wall-o-text )
The trends statewide continue to be mostly in the bad direction; with the confirmed death count up by one and the confirmed case count up eighteen percent. The test count actually went up, and the percent-positive rate managed to drop a fraction of a percent; still, at 11.74%, that's way too high to have any confidence that reported cases match the actual prevalence of COVID in the population. There were slight drops in the numbers of patients currently in hospital, but both the seven-day average and the number of new hospitalizations over the past week are up again. In additional unencouraging news, both sides of the MWRA sewershed are up over six hundred copies/milliliter, continuing their upward climb from their late June lows (around one hundred).
In better news, the Food and Drug Adminstration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have approved updated COVID-19 booster shots. (I'm signed up to get my latest booster on Saturday.)
The trends statewide continue to be mostly in the bad direction; with the confirmed death count up by one and the confirmed case count up eighteen percent. The test count actually went up, and the percent-positive rate managed to drop a fraction of a percent; still, at 11.74%, that's way too high to have any confidence that reported cases match the actual prevalence of COVID in the population. There were slight drops in the numbers of patients currently in hospital, but both the seven-day average and the number of new hospitalizations over the past week are up again. In additional unencouraging news, both sides of the MWRA sewershed are up over six hundred copies/milliliter, continuing their upward climb from their late June lows (around one hundred).
In better news, the Food and Drug Adminstration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have approved updated COVID-19 booster shots. (I'm signed up to get my latest booster on Saturday.)