Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 31-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 about it: 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
Information right next to the city/town name is the most recent information and the furthest to the right is the furthest back.  
  • Arlington - (slightly worse) 27.4<-26.6<-31.3<-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 - (slight improvement) 56.6<-60.6<-63.7<-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 - (slight improvement) 26.0<-28.9<-29.4<-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 - (improvement) 124.2<-135.2<-152.5<-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 - (slight improvement) 81.1<-85.0<-81.9<-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 - (worse) 46.3<-38.5<-33.3<-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 - (improvement) 139.2<-166.0<-205.7<-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 - (improvement) 92.4<-118.5<-139.1<-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 - (improvement) 103.9<-117.4<-133.4<-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 - (improvement) 68.1<-73.4<-81<-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 - (slowed improvement) 62.0<-62.5<-67.1<-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 - (slight improvement) 52.4<-54.5<-55.8<-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 - (improvement) 77.6<-86.9<-88.7<-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 - (improvement) 40.3<-48.4<-47.8<-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 - (slight improvement) 80.6<-84.1<-93.0<-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 - (slight improvement) 61.7<-64.9<-68.1<-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
Number of cities/towns with each designation with my calculation:
  • Green - 61 (1 more than last week) (Less than 4 cases per 100,000 people per day)
  • Yellow - 5 (3 more than last week) (Greater than or equal to 4 and less than 8 cases per 100,000 people per day)
  • Orange - 2 (4 fewer than last week) (Greater than or equal to 8 and less than 16 cases per 100,000 people per day)
  • Red - 16 (10 fewer than last week) (Greater than or equal to 16 and less than 24 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
  • Maroon- 74 (8 more than last week) (Greater than or equal to 24 and less than 40 cases per 100,000 people per day)
  • Purple- 104 (1 more than last week) (Greater than or equal to 40 and less than 64 cases per 100,000 people per day)
  • Black - 89 (1 more than last week last week)(Greater than or equal to 64 cases per 100,000 people per day).
Summary: We have seen some slight improvements in some places but not significant improvements in most and certainly not significant overall.  We are very much still in a dangerous place (in terms of COVID-19), far more dangerous than we were at any point prior to November... and this is still prior to the impact of Christmas/New Years events.  We do see an overall decrease in cases per day but more cities/towns are moving into higher range of cases than are moving into lower range of cases.

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. Stay vigilant. 

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