Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 22-Dec-2021 Edition

For the 6th straight week, new hospitalizations escalated further.

Time period             - new hospitalizations (not increased headcount, these are newly admitted patients)
June 2021                -  15.0
July 2021                 -  19.0 (last week of the month was 34)
August 2021            -  61.1 (1st week of the month was 42.7 and it increased steadily to 72 the last week)
September 2021       -  72.4
October 2021           -  60.3
Oct 31-Nov 6 2021  -  58.7
Nov 7-13 2021         -  68.1
Nov 14-20 2021       -  88.3
Nov 21-27 2021       -100.1
Nov 28-Dec 4 2021  -122.4
Dec 5-11 2021          -162.9
Dec 12-18 2021        -177.9

The first three days of the week have tended to have lower new hospitalizations than the average for the week end up having (not surprising since we're increasing the new hospitalizations), and this week those 3 days average out to 186.7.

Hospitals continue fill up unsurprisingly and we are now at levels last seen in the first 3 days of February for general beds, ICU beds, and intubations.

Cases halted their ever so slight decline and instead climbed dramatically last week.

June 2021                 -   91.7 cases per day (  1.33 cases per 100,000 people per day)
July 2021                 -  364.7 cases per day (  5.29 cases per 100,000 people per day)
August 2021            -1258.5 cases per day (18.26 cases per 100,000 people per day)
September 2021      -1589.1 cases per day (23.05 cases per 100,000 people per day)
October 2021          -1205.0 cases per day (17.48 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Oct 24-30 2021       -1136.4 cases per day (16.49 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Oct 31-Nov 6 2021 -1420.3 cases per day (20.60 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Nov 7-13 2021        -1813.0 cases per day (26.30 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Nov 14-20 2021      -2478.0 cases per day (35.95 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Nov 21-28 2021      -2337.7 cases per day (33.91 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Nov 28-Dec 4 2021 -4398.9 cases per day (63.82 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Dec 5-11 2021         -4346.1 cases per day (63.05 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Dec 12-18 2021       -5058.9 cases per day (73.39 cases per 100,000 people per day)

Last week's case count is still higher than all but 1 other week since the pandemic began.  This week is already shaping up to exceed that with Monday already nearly matching last week's and already higher than all but 9 other days (with days before the data for Monday settles down since we tend to see the positive test data continue to come in for about a week after the day of the test).

Deaths also continued to increase, rising from an average of 22 per day to 25.

Stay safe. Stay informed. Stay keeping your friends, family, and neighbors safe.

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