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

As we begin June, it does appear we are still seeing decreased cases, but it also definitely appears that decrease is slowing.... pretty much exactly in line with what we saw last year at the same time.  

Average new cases per day by week, then and now (and with per 100,000 people in parenthesis to bring in line with the outside MA and the more local reviews I've been doing):

Week of 19-Apr-2020:  2118.4 (30.7)
Week of 25-Apr-2020:  1773.0 (25.7)
Week of 3-May-2020:   1405.9 (20.4)
Week of 10-May-2020: 1073.4 (15.6)
Week of 17-May-2020:   852.0 (12.4)
Week of 24-May-2020:   498.3   (7.2)
Week of 31-May-2020:   348.0   (5.0)
Week of 07-Jun-2020:     239.6   (3.5)

Week of 4-Apr-2021:    1866.0 (27.1)
Week of 11-Apr-2021:  1578.3 (22.9)
Week of 18-Apr-2021:  1211.6 (17.6)
Week of 25-Apr-2021:  1015.4 (14.7)
Week of 2-May-2021:     734.4 (10.7)
Week of 09-May-2021:   497.7   (7.2)
Week of 16-May-2021:   355.4   (5.2)
Week of 23-Jun-2021:     188.1   (2.7) (still days away from seeing stable numbers... if the way the numbers increased over the course of the week last week continues this week, we can expect this to reach around 220)

On a more positive note, we've just closed out the fourth straight week of single digit deaths per day... though, I would have hoped that when we re-opened fully we would have low single-digit deaths per day or maybe even have seen at least one day with no deaths and an average less than 1 per day?

We also continue to see decreased hospital use, though we've now seen 2 weeks in a row of decreasing reductions in hospital use.... for example, 3 weeks ago we saw a decease in general hospitalized patients of 14.4 fewer per day, then 2 weeks ago it was 11.4 fewer per day and then last week it was just 3 fewer per day... which means we're back to seeing more people die than we do leaving the hospitals... and with 225 people in the hospital, it would be really nice to have kept up the double-digit reduction (without a double-digit death rate).

Stay safe. Stay sane. Stay informed.

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