Fun with MA COVID-19 reporting 23-Sep-2020 Greater-Greater Somerville local edition

(All average cases listed are 14-day averages and are per 100,000, which means that it's comparable between cities without regard for each city's population)
  • Arlington (green) - Continuing your attempt to return to where you were 3 weeks ago, you're down to 1.9... just .3 above where you were 3 weeks ago, just 1.3 above where you were 4 weeks ago... seriously though, keep up the good work of reducing your rate.
  • Boston (yellow but just barely) - Still increasing slightly overall with another .2 increase (second time with that level of increase), now at 7.9... Inches from red (which would match the color of some of your neighborhoods). Stay tuned for the details of neighborhoods, likely on Friday if the last 2 weeks' timing continues.
  • Cambridge (green) - Your bad trend continues ... 1.6->2.0->2.2->2.6.
  • Chelsea (RED!) - Your progress to a lighter red has slowed down... 31.9->29.4->25->22.9->22.4. Pick up the pace please. It would be great for you to reach 10 before December.
  • Fitchburg (green) - Getting a little further out from the seesawing between 2.4 and 4.6 this week and in a good way! 3.6->4.6->2.4->2.4->3.1->2.2-1.5.
  • Holliston (turned red) - You're up to 8.3 this week but as Matt points out below, the active cases are clumped together and hopefully can be contained. It's important to note that the smaller the population, the easier it is to move from green to red or from red to green and it doesn't necessarily reflect the true danger level due to the potential for the small number of cases causing such a shift to be contained within 1 or 2 households.
  • Lynn (red) - 24.3->23.5->16.7->12.1->9.5.->12.7->11.3... good job getting back to the downward path.
  • Malden (yellow) - 4.2->3.6->5.5->7.4->6.0->4.7 It's been a bumpy road but you've been heading for green for a couple weeks. You and (spoiler alert) Somerville are in a race to get back to green.
  • Medford (yellow) - 4.5->3.6->3.1->4.5->5.4->4.7->4.3. slow but steady path toward green, keep it up.
  • Somerville (yellow) - 3.7->4.7->5.8->7.7->7.6->4.9 LET'S GET TO GREEN!
Have a city/town you'd like me to keep track of?  Let me know and I'll get started tracking it.

Stay Safe. Stay Sane. Stay Informed.

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