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 substantial.

Well, but cases aren't everything.  We've finally seen a decrease in deaths lately.  Going from 72.4 per day the week of Jan 24 to 60.9 he week of Jan 31 to 49.1 the week of Feb 7.... the bad news is that the week of Feb 14 we saw 47 deaths per day... so... yeah, that reduction has also slowed significantly.  The good news is thats of far, this week seems to be back to reducing nicely with 38.6 for the relatively stable days of Sun-Wed. so here's hoping that last week was a blip and that we're continuing on the pattern.

Hospitalizations are also decreasing nicely with last showing a significant slow to that trend and this week continued that slowdown with 37-41 average daily reductions the weeks of Jan 14 through Feb 7 but only 28 the week of Feb 14 and only 23.7 so far this past week being reported.

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