Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 11-Aug-2021 Edition

On Monday I said that there was good news in that deaths seemed to be averaging 2 or fewer per day for the last 2 weeks which, while a higher count than I'd like, is certainly lower than the week of July 17-24 which averaged 4.3 deaths per day.  Well, in yesterday's report it ticked up slightly to 2.1 and 2.9 for the last 2 weeks respectively.  This is still lower than we saw 3 weeks ago and ever so slightly lower than what we saw 4 weeks ago but it's not quite the promise that late June/early July showed with 1.9, 2.0, and 1.6 feathers per day across 3 weeks.

Cases have jumped quite a bit with every weekday now seeing more than 1050 cases.  A couple data points for reference.  In the entire month of June there wasn't a single day that reached 200 cases, not one, and 24 of the 30 days of June didn't even reach 100 (and remember that that was under 2 months ago).  To find a day that reached 1050 cases, you have to go back to April.  Last fall, we didn't see a day that reached 1050 till the week of October 18-24.

And today we have the new hospitalization numbers for the last 7 days and can see that last week did indeed increase again.  The week of July 18 had an average of 17.9 new hospitalizations per day.  The week of July 25 had 34 per day.  And then last week had 42.7 new hospitalizations per day.  By the way, the trend is that the Saturday, Sunday and Monday have fewer hospitalizations than the rest of the week... and the average of Saturday through Monday just this past weekend is 48.6, so it certainly looks like we'll have another week that's higher than the previous one.

Stay safe. Stay informed.

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