Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 11-Nov-2020

Well @#$%  That's all.  Have a good rest of the week.

Ok, you know that's not all I've got to say so let's dig into it, shall we?

Last week inches closer and closer to the April 26 threshold of 1774.7 average daily cases.  We now stand at 1714.4.  We may see last week go higher than the April 5 threshold of 1736.7, narrowing the Sun-Sat weeks that have seen higher cases (currently 4, likely 3 soon enough).

Oh, and you know how we hadn't seen 1800+ cases on a single day from May 5 through the start of last week (or 1600+ if you start that time period just a few days later on May 8 but again, go until the start of last week)... Just 2 days later, with plenty of days of triple digit and double digit increases to come, Monday sites at 1853!

Deaths for last week broke the average 20 per day threshold which we had been approaching but hadn't quite committed to over the last month.  That means we saw more deaths last week than any other week since Jun 21 (23.8 that week vs 20.8 last week).

Non-ICU hospital beds went from 68% used to 72%, which explains why we're working on re-opening up field hospitals like we did in April.  

The good news is, we now know better how to treat people and avoid them dying, so that 20 people per day that are dying now, we couldn't see that nearly double in the next 2 months, right?  ~checks averages in September~ oh, they have nearly doubled in the last 2 months....

But sure, Baker, all we need to do is get people to eat out in a more condensed time period each day so they aren't out too late drinking.  I'm confident that will drive down the numbers because more people in one place at the same time has been what has been advised all along, right?  And throwing your full-throated weight behind us being concerned about masks will do it because we had a mandate before but now you really really want people to follow it, so I'm sure they will while you downplay the hell out of the situation by saying that just about every city and town is in the green or yellow instead of red since you want as many networks of people meeting in person as possible during the day.

Baker's administration is fully aware that we're now in April numbers of cases and hospitalizations and that's why they're working on opening up field hospitals.  There is absolutely no hiding that they are aware of this and there is no avoiding the fact that they are actively working to put people in harm's way.

Stay safe. Stay sane. Stay informed. Stay home this Thanksgiving. 

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