Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 01-Apr-2021 Edition

This past Saturday, I predicted that last week would turn out to be a third straight week of increased cases. Shockingly (not even remotely shocking), this was already known to be the case on Monday evening.  Today we know that every single weekday last week had more cases than any other single day since February 10 and every single weekday last week had more than 70% more cases than the average day from that same 39 day window.  The week's average daily increase was already close to that of the week of Feb 7's on Monday but it has climbed quite a bit since then and has surpassed it.  In terms of our first wave, every weekday last week now is higher than all but 11 days last April and the average for the whole week is more than all but 2 weeks in that first wave.

And in case you're wondering if these are small increases week over week, they're not.  The last 2 weeks have seen more than 17% increases in cases from the preceding week, with last week being 20% more than the preceding week!

And this past Monday, with number still increasing, has already reached a higher count than any but 6 of the days of the first wave and any day recently going back to Feb 9.

With all of this in mind, it's worth remembering what you can do to help stem the spread (with an eye toward the fact that spread may still occur even between fully vaccinated people, studies are ongoing as to the efficacy of vaccines in reducing the potential to spread).  I wrote a post on exactly this: https://funwithmacovid-19reporting.blogspot.com/2020/12/how-to-avoid-covid-19.html

Stay safe. Stay sane. Stay informed. Stay appreciative that we are currently at the same risk-level for spread as at the peak of the first wave.

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