Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 27-Feb-2021 Edition
After seeing weeks of average daily cases dropping by pretty significant numbers, the drop between Feb 7 and Feb 14 is significantly lower. Jan 17->Jan 24 drop: 642.43 Jan 24->Jan 31 drop: 859.29 Jan 31->Feb 7 drop: 575.29 Feb 7->Feb 14 drop: 614.14 Feb 14->Feb 21 drop: 308.71 Now, maybe Feb 14 was an anomaly, right? Well, then again, Mon Feb 22, with the count still increasing, has a higher case count than any day going back to the week before last. Tues, Feb 23 is only surpassed by 2 days the preceding week and I would fully expect it to bypass those shortly. But that's fine, we've reduced our cases significantly in comparison to [checks back to May]... right, we haven't gotten down to May numbers yet. But what's the difference between the numbers when we re-opened to Phase 1 back in May and now when we're re-opening to Phase 3 Step 2 really? Oh, we're 173% of the number we saw that first week? Oh, that seems somewhat substantia...