Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 16-Jul-2020 edition

Remember how yesterday I commented on someone saying that there was a 1.4% positive test rate and said it was great news cause it was the lowest we've seen? Well, turns out they were talking about Tuesday's rate and Wednesday's rate was 2%. Also, the 3 day weighted average continues to hover around 1.7%. And the same person is saying today that there was a 1.1% rate, which, I certainly hope comes out in tomorrow's reporting data, I mean, right now we have a 0% rate in the data so..... anyway, that would be great because then the 3-day average would be 1.5%, which is clearly much lower than the 1.7-2.0% 7-day average we've seen since June 18th.

There is good news on the hospital front, however, because while we continue to see 6 hospitals using surge capacity (yep, still higher than any other day in the last month except Tuesday) and continue to see new hospitalizations above 300 (we had been below this for a couple days and have been hovering around that mark since June 11), more people were released from the hospitals, allowing the overall current count to decline to 557.

Also, intubations and ICU beds used declined... by 2 and 3 respectively, but still, positive motion... I mean, less positive than most of June, but... yeah, never mind, I'm not going to be great at this whole positivity thing just yet...

Oh, and we've seen another day of under 10 people dying (Tuesday's count is currently 5)... sure, we found 4 more people that died on Monday, which means you have to go back to last week to find the last time we had under 10 people (yes, 9 is under 10), and yes, we'll probably find that on Tuesday there were more people who died that we don't know about yet, and yes, we never start to see the death numbers until 2 days later, but this is a far cry from the dozens that were dying just over (checks calendar) a month ago.

Progress people... who cares if we haven't seen significant progress in recent days, it's progress over the height that was 2.5 months ago... and... not really much since a month ago, but still... yeah...

Stay safe. Stay sane. Stay informed. Stay positive... or something... I guess.... I don't know.... ~walks away~

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