Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 18-Jun-2020 edition

For those of you who like to see fun with numbers and accounting of Covid cases in Massachusetts (and also to get depressed in the morning)...

Yesterday's report included
  • an increase in the overall number of probable and confirmed cases of 266
  • an increase in the overall number of confirmed cases of 180
  • a change in the number of confirmed and probable cases that were originally traced to the last 44 days of 171
That means that at least 9 newly found confirmed cases and at least 78 OTHER newly found probable cases FROM BEFORE 44 DAYS AGO were uncovered sometime between 4pm on Tuesday and 4pm on Wednesday.

Once we get past 4 days, we only see single-digit increases/decreases in uncovered cases so those numbers seem to be relatively static.

We are likely to get to the 7,750 dead mark today and the 8,000 dead mark by early July.

Daily hospital admissions has only slightly decreased in the last 44 days but our number of people remaining in the hospital on a given day has decreased from above 3,000 to just under 1,000 in that time.

While we were down to 1 hospital using surge capacity for 1 day, we're back up to 2 for 2 days straight.

We appear to continue to be on a decent downward trend but now is no time to start treating this like everything's fine. Keep your masks up, keep your distance, keep washing your hands.

Stay safe, stay sane, stay informed

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