Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 08-Sep-2021 Edition

It's Wednesday, which means we have an update on the new hospitalizations we've seen in the last week.  The increase in new hospitalizations has slowed again, which is a positive sign, but we haven't seen an actual reduction in new hospitalizations yet.... and as with everything else from the last week, we have to ask what impact the holiday weekend had on the numbers given that many people traveled.

June 13-19 2021   -  13.4
June 20-26 2021   -  12.7
Jun 27-Jul 3 2021  - 11.4
July 4-10 2021      -  14.3
July 11-17 2021    -  14.3
July 18-24 2021    -  17.9
July 25-31 2021    -  34.0
Aug 01-07 2021    -  42.7
Aug 08-14 2021    -  54.7
Aug 15-21 2021    -  69.0
Aug 22-28 2021    -  72.0
Aug 29-Sep 4 2021- 72.1

Quick review of cases shows that even if we didn't see new cases come into the tally for last week in the coming days, last week would still be a sizable increase above the prior week, and yeah, we're going to see more cases come in in the next few days.

June 13-19 2021      -   72.6 cases per day (  1.05 cases per 100,000 people per day)
June 20-26 2021      -   65.7 cases per day (  0.95 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Jun 27-Jul 3 2021    -   79.1 cases per day (  1.15 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
July 4-10 2021        -  118.0 cases per day (  1.71 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
July 11-17 2021      -  264.3 cases per day (  3.83 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
July 18-24 2021      -  478.3 cases per day (  6.94 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
July 25-31 2021      -  721.0 cases per day (10.46 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
August 01-07 2021 -  998.7 cases per day (14.49 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
August 08-14 2021 -1155.4 cases per day (16.78 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
August 15-21 2021 -1313.4 cases per day (19.05 cases per 100,000 people per day)
August 22-28 2021 -1432.4 cases per day (20.78 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Aug 29-Sep 4 2021 -1510.7 cases per day (21.92 cases per 100,000 people per day)

The death rate last week was the same as the week before (7.4 deaths per day)... though we might see that increase since just yesterday we thought we had seen a couple days over the weekend with only 1 death and a day with no deaths.... and each of those days' death counts increased by at least 3 in today's report.  Note, this is still lower than any week in 2020 after March 16... but then again, it's a far cry from the 1.5-2 we were seeing in late June / early July this summer.

And let's round things out with a check in with waste water tracking.  The spread is certainly increasing quickly in the southern region tracked (orange in the map below) and is now showing levels we saw near the end of December 2020.  Northern region tracking (green below) shows increased spread but not the speed of increase that the southern region is seeing... still December 2020 levels but not speeding along toward January 2021.
https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

Stay safe. Stay informed.

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