Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 27-Oct-2020 edition

Well, yesterday we had 2 weekdays under 1000 cases last week, today we have no weekdays under 1050, which means that there is NO day between May 19 and the start of last week that reaches the count of ANY weekday last week. This far exceeds my prediction that the average for the weekdays last week would have had 900+ cases by the close of this week... the average weekday cases was 1,111.6.

Thursday of last week now has reached 1343 cases, which brings us back to May 12 looking for a day as bad.

The week saw an average of 923 cases per day (Sunday has 327 and Saturday, which is still increasing, saw 581) which means we are no longer looking at the week of May 17 for a week that exceeded and now have to look at May 10. Oh, also, the comparison of the average from last week to the one before? Yeah, we increased by 30 percent! Month over month? We DOUBLED!

Hospital usage, ICU usage, and intubation counts are all up too, so no bright spot there. The 3-day average hospital usage from exactly a month ago was 393 and today it's 552, showing a 40% increase. ICU went from 79 to 109 (a 38% increase). Intubations went from 27 to 47 (a 74% increase).
3-day average test rates remain the highest they've been in months too.... a month ago it was 1% and it's now 1.7% (I'll let you do the math on that one)

The good news is the death toll was only 16.5 per day last week... if you want to call that good news... I mean, it could be worse, right? We could have continued to see the same increase from the week before which had 19.8... but it's not as good as the average of 14 we had for the months of August and September.... which again, that's 14 people dying per day for those 2 months.... so.... you know... we should be aiming better than even our low period, right?

But sure, Gov Baker, everything's fine and we should re-open as much as possible and audit school districts if they aren't re-opening for full in-person learning and we should make sure to be ready to evict as many people as possible by hiring more judges so those eviction cases can be heard as quickly as possible so people can move to new networks and, should they have COVID-19, expose more people much more efficiently.

Please behave as close to the way you did at THE START of May because that is now where we are.... that is we are now worse off than we were BEFORE we started re-opening at all.

Stay safe. Stay sane. Stay informed.

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