Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 27-Oct-2021 Edition

It's a bad news, good news, bad news kind of day.

New hospitalizations have all but stalled out... going from reducing by 6.6 hospitalizations per day week-over-week to reducing by 3.3 to now only by 0.3.

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
Sep 5-11 2021        - 79.0
Sep 12-18 2021      - 74.7
Sep 19-25 2021      - 65.6
Sep 26-Oct 2 2021 - 69.9
Oct 3-9 2021          - 63.3
Oct 10-16 2021      - 60.0
Oct 17-23 2021      - 59.7

Hospital use also decreased last week, though barely, only decreasing by 2.5 patients per day (or less than a 0.5% decrease per day, given the 528 patients we see in hospitals as of today).  ICU bed use also saw an underwhelming decrease of 1.1 beds being used per day, currently tallied at 134 being used today.  Number of people intubated ticked up slightly with 0.4 additional intubated patients per day, which is similarly rather insignificant considering the current tally of 76 (so, slightly more than 0.5% increase per day).

While hospital news isn't great, spread does appear to have returned to decreasing, though agonizingly slowly.

June 13-19 2021      -   72.4 cases per day (  1.05 cases per 100,000 people per day)
June 20-26 2021      -   65.9 cases per day (  0.96 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        -  118.1 cases per day (  1.71 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
July 11-17 2021      -  263.9 cases per day (  3.83 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
July 18-24 2021      -  478.9 cases per day (  6.95 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 -  999.9 cases per day (14.51 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
August 08-14 2021 -1156.6 cases per day (16.78 cases per 100,000 people per day) 
August 15-21 2021 -1315.3 cases per day (19.08 cases per 100,000 people per day)
August 22-28 2021 -1442.0 cases per day (20.92 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Aug 29-Sep 4 2021 -1557.7 cases per day (22.60 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Sep 5-11 2021         -1686.7 cases per day (24.47 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Sep 12-18 2021       -1658.1 cases per day (24.06 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Sep 19-25 2021       -1535.1 cases per day (22.27 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Sep 26-Oct 2 2021  -1333.9 cases per day (19.35 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Oct 3-9 2021           -1332.3 cases per day (19.33 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Oct 10-16 2021       -1286.7 cases per day (18.67 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Oct 17-23 2021       -1153.4 cases per day (16.73 cases per 100,000 people per day)

And for the final bit of news for the day, deaths per day ticked ever so slightly back up last week with 11.9 deaths per day, up from 11.3 the previous week but still lower than the preceding 4 weeks which saw, starting with the week of Sep 12-19, 12.9, 13.9, 16.1 and 12.4 deaths per day respectively.  Essentially, we're still seeing very low double digit average deaths per day where we had seen single digit deaths per day from May 2 through August 28.  

To summarize: we've essentially stalled out our improvement in the situation in terms of hospitalizations and deaths but appear to be seeing some decline in spread.

Stay safe. Stay informed.

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