Fun with MA COVID-19 reporting 26-Aug-2020

In the last 30 days we...
  • Increased hospital use by 2 patients
  • Increased ICU patients by 12 (though admittedly we reduced the intubated patients by 1)
  • Saw 458 people die (and we're at 8,987 today so we'll likely top 9,000 tomorrow)
  • Saw 8,705 new cases
  • Went from 2 hospitals using surge capacity to 2 hospitals using surge capacity (breaking even is not a good trend)
  • Went from seeing an average of 222 daily new cases the previous week to 278.
  • Went from seeing 15 daily deaths the previous week to 14.85 (are we really going to call that improvement? how about when you consider that last week's average increased by 1.43 since yesterday?... don't worry, I'm sure we've stopped finding new deaths from last week at this point)
  • Went from a 1.9% positive molecular test rate to 1.1% positive molecular test rate... while nearly doubling the number of molecular tests given (see, when you multiply the bottom part of the fraction by  and the overall fraction remains relatively constant, that either means the top half increased dramatically on you or you didn't realize how bad things were before, and yeah, the optimist in this case says we're doing far worse than we thought we were because the alternative is actually worse).
Stay Safe. Stay Sane. Stay Informed. Stay understanding that things are not getting better the way the news and our Governor want you to think they are.

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