Local COVID-19 updates
May. 31st, 2020 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edschweppeAs of 4PM this afternoon, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is reporting 78 more deaths from COVID-19 (for a total of 6,846 to date), 664 new cases (for a total of 96,965) and 10,334 more tests reported (for a total of 592,853). The ratio of new cases to new test results is 6.4%.
Another day with a mixed bag of headline numbers; for a change, the new case counts and percentage of positive tests are down (yay), but the death counts are up (boo). All four "Dashboard of Public Health Indicators" numbers were either down or level today, but I have a bad feeling that there's another upward spike about to hit the three-day average death rate.
The Globe published a special report today: The Virus's Tale, about the growth of COVID-19 in Massachusetts and the local response thereto (so far, at least). Interesting (and scary) stuff, and well worth a read-through assuming you can get through the Globe's paywall:
Nothing new from the town of Acton since the May 28 update, which reported 167 cumulative cases, 45 persons currently in isolation, 101 persons recovered from the virus, and 21 deaths.
Another day with a mixed bag of headline numbers; for a change, the new case counts and percentage of positive tests are down (yay), but the death counts are up (boo). All four "Dashboard of Public Health Indicators" numbers were either down or level today, but I have a bad feeling that there's another upward spike about to hit the three-day average death rate.
The Globe published a special report today: The Virus's Tale, about the growth of COVID-19 in Massachusetts and the local response thereto (so far, at least). Interesting (and scary) stuff, and well worth a read-through assuming you can get through the Globe's paywall:
Track the coronavirus pandemic in Massachusetts to its roots and you find a story driven by heroics, ingenuity, error, pain, and a hard question: How could a state famous for health care excellence have suffered such a vast loss of human life?The print edition included a running graphical timeline of the statewide death count, starting at the bottom of page A6 (zero deaths as of January 1) and staying at the bottom of page A7 (35 deaths as of March 27). On page A8, the timeline hits April, the death counts start to rise - and the red line representing those deaths starts curving upward through the page text. By the end of the article on page A11, that red line has cut through every column of the text, peaking at yesterday's count of 6,768.
Nothing new from the town of Acton since the May 28 update, which reported 167 cumulative cases, 45 persons currently in isolation, 101 persons recovered from the virus, and 21 deaths.