Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 06-Apr-2022 Edition

Let's start where we always do on Wednesdays with new hospitalizations.  We start this week with good-ish news: new hospitalizations don't appear to be increasing... they appear to have stabilized at roughly twice the rate of new hospitalizations we saw last June.  

Time period              - new hospitalizations (not increased headcount, these are newly admitted patients)
June 2021                  -  15.0
July 2021                   -  19.0 
August 2021              -  61.1 
September 2021        -  72.4
October 2021            -  60.3
November 2021        -  82.5
December 2021         -186.8
January 2022             -341.4
Jan 9-15 2022            -436.7 (peak week)
February 2022           -100.5
Feb 27-Mar 5 2022   -  43.3
Mar 6-12 2022          -  33.9
Mar 13-19 2022        -  29.3
Mar 20-26 2022        -  33.7
Mar 27-Apr 2 2022   -  33.4

Hospital use itself appears to be roughly holding steady across the board... which is better than increasing I guess.

Heading to cases, last week is now the third week in a row of increasing spread, with a further 26% week-over-week increase.

June 2021                  -     91.7 cases per day (    1.33 cases per 100,000 people per day)
July 2021                  -    364.8 cases per day (    5.29 cases per 100,000 people per day)
August 2021             -  1259.0 cases per day (  18.26 cases per 100,000 people per day)
September 2021       -  1589.9 cases per day (  23.06 cases per 100,000 people per day)
October 2021            -  1204.7 cases per day (  17.48 cases per 100,000 people per day)
November 2021       -   2301.8 cases per day (  33.39 cases per 100,000 people per day)
December 2021        -  7470.1 cases per day (108.37 cases per 100,000 people per day)
January 2022            -12829.2 cases per day (186.12 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Jan 2-8 2022             -23203.1 cases per day (336.61 cases per 100,000 people per day) (peak week)
February 2022          -  1626.9 cases per day (  23.6 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Feb 27-Mar 5 2022  -    749.4 cases per day (  10.87 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Mar 6-12 2022         -    600.7 cases per day (    8.71 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Mar 13-19 2022       -    658.4 cases per day (    9.55 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Mar 20-26 2022       -    909.3 cases per day (  13.19 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Mar 27-Apr 2 2022  -  1146.9 cases per day (  16.64 cases per 100,000 people per day)

Deaths, being the lagging indicator that they are, continued to go down ever so slowly.

June 2021                  -  3.4 per day
July 2021                   -  2.6 per day
August 2021              -  6.3 per day
September 2021        - 12.8 per day
October 2021            - 11.7 per day
November 2021        - 13.7 per day
December 2021        -  28.7 per day
January 2022             - 61.3 per day
Jan 16-22 2022          - 72.9 per day (peak week)
February 2022           - 37.0 per day
Feb 27-Mar 5 2022   - 24.1 per day
Mar 6-12 2022          - 13.3 per day
Mar 13-19 2022        -   6.3 per day
Mar 20-26 2022        -   4.9 per day
Mar 27-Apr 2 2022   -   3.7 per day

And we'll end with the closest to real-time indicator we have: wastewater tracking.  We're back to the same levels as the first half of February and are continuing to increase.

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

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