Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 10-Dec-2020 Greater-Greater Somerville Edition

Just a friendly reminder that I'm using state numbers for total cases in reporting from each week but using a calculation that is a better approximation of the cases we've seen every 2 weeks by taking the totals from the report 2 weeks ago and comparing to the report of the week.  For an explanation of why this is more appropriate, read over my post from a few weeks ago: https://funwithmacovid-19reporting.blogspot.com/2020/10/why-weekly-community-numbers-reported.html

• Green - Less than 4 cases per 100,000 people per day
• Yellow - Greater than or equal to 4 and less than 8 cases per 100,000 people per day
• Orange - Greater than or equal to 8 and less than 16 cases per 100,000 people per day
• Red - Greater than or equal to 16 and less than 24 cases per 100,000 people per day 
• Maroon- Greater than or equal to 24 and less than 40 cases per 100,000 people per day
• Purple- Greater than or equal to 40 and less than 64 cases per 100,000 people per day
• Black - Greater than or equal to 64 cases per 100,000 people per day

• Arlington - 27.6<-13.5<-10.6<- 7.5 <- 6.4 <- 6.7 <- 3.9 <- 0.9 <- 2.2 <- 3.0 <- 1.9 <- 2.5 <- 2.7 <- 1.4 <- 0.6 <- 0.6 
• Boston - 48<-34.0<-33.0<- 24.5 <- 19.2 <- 16.4 <- 12.0 <- 10.9 <- 10.2 <- 8.6 <- 8.0 <- 5.8 <- 5.8 <- 7.8 <- 7.1 <- 6.6 
• Cambridge - 23.1<-23.5<-20.1<- 9.9 <- 5.8 <- 3.9 <- 4.2 <- 3.7 <- 2.7 <- 3.1 <- 3.0 <- 2.4 <- 1.8 <- 1.6 <- 2.2 <- 2.3 
• Chelsea -106.4<-70.7<- 73.8<- 60.5 <- 48.0 <- 34.9 <- 26.9 <- 30.2 <- 24.3 <- 18.6 <- 20.5 <- 20.9 <- 26.4 <- 31.3 <- 30.0 <- 22.2 
• Fitchburg - 62.6<-50.5<-56.4<- 50.2 <- 41.0 <- 25.6 <- 6.9 <- 3.9 <- 2.5 <- 1.5 <- 1.5 <- 2.5 <- 3.2 <- 2.4 <- 2.0 <- 3.7 
• Holliston - 23.1<-24.9<-19.7<- 17.1 <- 17.1 <- 13.0 <- 9.8 <- 7.8 <- 5.7 <- 6.7 <- 8.8 <- 6.2 <- 3.6 <- 5.2 <- 2.6 <- 1.0 
• Lawrence - 169.6<-110.5<-110.8<- 88.4 <- 64.3 <- 57.3 <- 49.3 <- 41.2 <- 37.6 <- 36.5 <- 22.5 <- 14.1 <- 18.3 <- 17.0 <- 12.6 <- 9.5 
• Lowell - 110.0<-81.9<-67.4<- 46.1 <- 29.8 <- 19.7 <- 13.9 <- 15.2 <- 16.7 <- 12.3 <- 8.1 <- 6.4 <- 6.1 <- 4.3 <- 2.9 <- 2.8 
• Lynn - 100.5<-71.4<-64.5<- 48.4 <- 38.3 <- 27.6 <- 18.7 <- 13.6 <- 11.2 <- 12.0 <- 15.7 <- 13.2 <- 9.6 <- 12.2 <- 17.0 <- 22.2 
• Malden - 64.0<-36.9<-35.3<- 26.1 <- 17.1 <- 13.8 <- 12.2 <- 11.9 <- 10.9 <- 6.3 <- 4.3 <- 6.1 <- 7.3 <- 5.9 <- 3.7 <- 3.0 
• Medford - 53.8<-26.4<-24.1<- 18.8 <- 11.6 <- 8.8 <- 7.2 <- 6.9 <- 5.8 <- 4.8 <- 4.7 <- 4.7 <- 5.4 <- 4.1 <- 3.3 <- 4.1 
• Quincy - 41.9<-19.3<-13.6<- 10.3 <- 8.5 <- 6.9 <- 6.3 <- 6.9 <- 6.4 <- 4.8 <- 3.7 <- 3.2 <- 2.9 <- 2.6 <- 3.3 <- 2.8 
• Salem - 70.8<-50.6<-41.9<- 28.2 <- 16.8 <- 9.8 <- 6.5 <- 5.9 <- 6.7 <- 6.5 <- 4.4 <- 3.8 <- 4.9 <- 4.9 <- 6.5 <- 9.8 
• Somerville - 39.5<-35.9<-8.2<- 17.8 <- 10.3 <- 7.4 <- 7.1 <- 7.5 <- 6.4 <- 4.9 <- 5.2 <- 7.0 <- 7.9 <- 6.5 <- 4.7 <- 3.4 
• Springfield - 80.4<-65.2<-56.9<- 38.5 <- 26.3 <- 18.1 <- 11.3 <- 14.7 <- 14.6 <- 9.6 <- 5.7 <- 3.7 <- 3.6 <- 2.8 <- 3.5 <- 4.5 

• State - 53.3<-35.5<-31.2 <- 22.4 <- 16.3 <- 12.7 <- 9.3 <- 8.5 <- 7.6 <- 6.2 <- 5.1 <- 4.4 <- 4.4 <- 4.5 <- 4.0 <- 3.8

Highlights:

Props to Cambridge and Holliston for decreasing their case counts through this period, though you're both still super high in comparison to what we used to consider risky.  Arlington nearly doubled and Medford and Quincy did double.  Malden bypassed a color and went straight to black.  There are now 4 locales that I'm tracking with 100+ cases/day/100k population!

Number of cities/towns with each designation with my calculation:

• Green - 59 (6 fewer this week) (Less than 4 cases per 100,000 people per day)
• Yellow - 2 (2 fewer this week) (Greater than or equal to 4 and less than 8 cases per 100,000 people per day)
• Orange - 18 (35 fewer this week) (Greater than or equal to 8 and less than 16 cases per 100,000 people per day)
• Red - 39 (29 fewer this week) (Greater than or equal to 16 and less than 24 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
• Maroon- 95 (8 fewer this week) (Greater than or equal to 24 and less than 40 cases per 100,000 people per day)
• Purple- 95 (55 more this week) (Greater than or equal to 40 and less than 64 cases per 100,000 people per day)
• Black - 43 (33 more this week) (Greater than or equal to 64 cases per 100,000 people per day)
• When ALL 5 lower categories go down, you know the upper levels are going to increase dramatically

Oh, also, according to the state, according to the state,

• 271 cities/towns of 352 have a higher rate now than they did in last week's report, 49 saw a lower rate
• 159 cities/towns are in the red per the state's crazy determination.

Have a city/town you'd like me to keep track of? Let me know and I'll get started.

Stay Safe. Stay Sane. Stay Informed.