Fun with COVID-19 reporting in MA (and elsewhere)

Just a friendly reminder that I'm using state numbers for total cases in reporting from each week but using a calculation that is a better approximation of the cases we've seen every 2 weeks by taking the totals from the report 2 weeks ago and comparing to the report of the week.  For an explanation of why this is more appropriate, read over my post about it:  https://funwithmacovid-19reporting.blogspot.com/2020/10/why-weekly-community-numbers-reported.html Recognizing that the detailed view isn't for everybody, I'm boiling it down to the highs/lows for 2021 and providing only this year's detailed information here.  The highs and lows of 2021 are still important because it gives us perspective both on the super-high from this winter as well as the not-so-great low from a few weeks ago.  This is obviously an over-simplification but might be easier to read than the full details.  The detailed week-by-week information going back further can be found at the bottom o...