Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 10-Jul-2021 Edition

So, yeah, we're back to increased spread.

Cases for a given day keep coming in for around 5-7 days after that date so I won't talk about this past week much.  Instead, let's talk about the week that is pretty settled: June 27-July 3.  We saw an average of 78.6 cases per day for the state (1.1 cases per 100,000 people per day).  This represents not just an increase over the previous week but the previous 2 weeks.  It represents a 9% increase from 2 weeks prior and a 20% increase over the immediately preceding week.  As a reminder, this is BEFORE everybody went traveling and/or gathered for the holiday.  

Now, I said I wouldn't talk about this past week much... and that's because of the delay in knowing the full count but also because it's always better to average multiple successive days, you can easily have some random reason for more people to get tested on a given day and not on another... such as the much lower weekend counts compared to surrounding weekdays... because nobody wants to spend their time on a weekend getting tested.  With that said, the first 3 weekdays of this week are already equal to or higher than any day 2 weeks prior.  Tuesday is already 18% higher than the next highest single-day going back 28 days to June 11.  That's a pretty sizable blip.  And it doesn't look likely to have been a blip with Wednesday already being at 101 cases and likely to increase dramatically given that the data was only 2 days old.  

Stay safe. Stay informed.

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