Fun with MA COVID-19 reporting 02-Sep-2020

First off... PROBABLE CASES ARE BACK! I have no idea why they brought them back but... there they are... first time in a while that they've been reported on.... still at the back of the report but, I guess someone felt they were important enough to include?

Next up, to all those that are excited by how low we've gotten in hospitalizations (and we have indeed reduced the headcount by 92 in the last month) and the various times when the state has reported a low number on a given day (and often, if you're paying attention, that number turns out to be just because we hadn't heard about all the cases/deaths or the progress has been eroded a bit), I would like to point out 4 things:
  1. We only decreased headcount in the ICU by 10 in the last month
  2. We only decreased the number of intubations by 4 in the last month
  3. We have EXACTLY THE SAME number of hospitals using surge capacity as we did 1 month ago today
  4. We've seen 422 deaths in the last month.
And if those numbers seem good to you, I'll remind you that this was when we were in good weather and when we weren't dealing with the confluence of negative influencers that are coming.

Oh, and our average daily cases are still going in the wrong way ... we're not May levels yet but we're getting closer.

Stay safe. Stay sane. Stay informed. Stay able to remember more than the daily headline.

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