Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 04-Dec-2020 edition

So, remember how yesterday I was talking about how this Monday had already reached a higher case count than any other day (3,804) and that Tuesday (3,290) was higher than all but 3 days (all of which being in the last weeks)?  Well... shockingly, both increased today... by nearly 1,000 each!  Until Nov 16th we had never reached 3,000... and we now have 2 days over 4,000 that are still seeing their numbers increase by triple digits each day.  Monday is at 4,713 and Tuesday is at 4,150.  And Wednesday, is already at 3,057... so expect that to reach 4,000 by Monday too.  Oh, and last Friday through Sunday each increased by over 100 cases.... that's a week later we're still seeing triple digit increases where it used to be a week was sufficient to only see single digit or low double digit increases for a day... guess we're passed that point now.

Tuesday also saw 43 deaths and last week's average death toll sits at 32.6... keeping in mind that between Jun 28 and October 25 the average for each week never broke 20, these seem problematic to me.

Hospitalizations for non-ICU is now at 80% of capacity (including surge capacity) and ICU beds are at 63% and both are continuing to increase by rates not seen since April.  Oh, and there's a region in MA that is at 100% capacity for ICU beds.  That's 100% capacity for ICU beds, not for COVID-19 ICU beds... any patient that needs an ICU bed in Northeast MA for whatever reason now has to go somewhere else or someone currently in an ICU bed there needs to be kicked off it.  But surely everything is under control and the field hospital being opened this weekend in Worcester (note, Worcester is not in the Northeast) that Baker has been excitedly pushing out news about will take care of any problems we have.  

Thanks Baker, you totally have the state's health in mind and I feel confident that if we were in trouble, you'd do something that would protect us.

Stay safe. Stay sane. Stay informed. Stay treating this like it's worse than April... because it is.

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