Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 18-Aug-2021 Edition

Quickly covering cases: We went from knowing that last week had an average daily case count of 1,102 to today knowing that we saw 1,140, inching us closer to that 1,165 of the last week of October 2020.

Quickly covering deaths: Deaths from last week also ticked up slightly, going from 4.85 per day to 5.57 per day.... and the known days from this week average to 5.5... so... it's likely we're not returning back to the glory days of late June/early July where we had 1.5-2 for 3 weeks.

Hospitalizations... this is what I came to let you know about today because we got the weekly update on new hospitalizations per day (as opposed to the beds-occupied counts that we see each day).  For all of June through the week of July 18-24 we had weekly averages of 21 or fewer new hospitalizations per day.  The slowing of new hospitalization, however, ended the week of June 27-July 3 (11.43 new hospitalizations per day) and started increasing slowly with both July 4-10 and July 11-17 only averaging 14.29 new hospitalizations per day.  It quickly grew from there though, more than doubling 2 weeks later to 34 new hospitalizations per day the week of July 25-31 and then increasing by 25% each of the following weeks to 54.7 new hospitalizations last week.  For comparison, the last time we saw an average of more than 50 new hospitalizations per day for a week was the start of May and last fall, we reached 52 new hospitalizations per day the final week of October 2020.  Oh, and the total use of hospitals is now above 400, which also brings us back to early May and the final week of October 2020.  ICU beds and intubated patients are also back to levels we saw the final week of October 2020.

One more thing... waste management tracking would suggest that there's roughly the same spread as we saw in November 2020... which suggests that there are more cases than we're aware of (which is unsurprising given the potential for asymptomatic cases and the general feeling that we're in "post COVID" times).

Stay safe. Stay informed.

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