Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 29-Jul-2022 Edition (based on 28-Jul-2022 state report)

Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths.

Summary: New hospitalizations and generally hospital use continue to increase for the fourth week in a row. Reported cases are back to increasing and are in line with what we saw the first week of November 2021. And the laggiest of lagging indicators, deaths, is decreasing but still more than three times as high as it was this time last year. Wastewater does seem to be roughly stable at 20 times where were this time last year.

New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients):
Time period              - Newly admitted patients
June 2021                  -  15.0
Jun 27-Jul 3 2021       - 11.4
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
March 2022               -  34.3
Mar 13-19 2022         -  29.3 (low week*)
April 2022                  -  61.1
May 2022                   -121.8
May 15-21 2022         -136.3 (peak week)
June 2022                    -  91.0
Jun 26-Jul 2 2022       -  88.3 (valley week)
Jul 3-9 2022                -  94.0
Jul 10-16 2022            -101.4
Jul 17-23 2022            -110.7
* Note that the low week thus far for 2021 is a little more than twice the low for 2022 and that our current level is just under 10 times that low.

Hospital use generally continues to increase as well

Cases:
June 2021                  -     91.7 cases per day (    1.33 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)(low week 2022)
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        -  7473.4 cases per day (108.42 cases per 100,000 people per day)
January 2022            -12834.6 cases per day (186.20 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Jan 2-8 2022             -23200.7 cases per day (336.58 cases per 100,000 people per day) (peak week)
February 2022          -  1631.5 cases per day (  23.67 cases per 100,000 people per day)
March 2022              -    816.0 cases per day (  11.84 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Mar 6-12 2022         -    604.0 cases per day (    8.76 cases per 100,000 people per day) (low week*)
April 2022                -  1960.0 cases per day (  28.43 cases per 100,000 people per day)
May 2022                 -  3141.5 cases per day (  45.57 cases per 100,000 people per day)
May 8-14 2022         -  3914.4 cases per day (  56.79 cases per 100,000 people per day)(peak week)
June 2022                 -  1513.4 cases per day (  22.00 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Jun 19-25 2022         -  1336.7 cases per day (  19.39 cases per 100,000 people per day)(valley week)
Jun 26-Jul 2 2022     -  1391.4 cases per day (  20.19 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Jul 3-9 2022              -  1347.1 cases per day (  19.54 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Jul 10-16 2022          -  1424.6 cases per day (  20.74 cases per 100,000 people per day)
Jul 17-23 2022          -  1429.9 cases per day (  20.74 cases per 100,000 people per day)
* Note that our low week so far in 2022 is more than 8 times the low from 2021 (and we're still more than twice that low week today.


Deaths:
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          - 73.0 per day (peak week)
February 2022           - 36.8 per day
March 2022               - 10.4 per day
April 2022                 - 11.9 per day
Apr 10-16 2022         -   5.1 per day (low week for 2022 thus far, nearly 4 times the low week from 2021)
May 2022                  -  11.9 per day
May 15-21 2022        - 15.7 per day (peak week in May)
June 2022                  -  10.6 per day 
Jun 26-Jul 2 2022     -    9.0 per day 
Jul 3-9 2022              -    8.4 per day 
Jul 10-16 2022          -    8.3 per day 
Jul 17-23 2022          -    7.9 per day 

Deaths continue to appear to be slowly decreasing but each wee wee learn of more deaths that happened in the previous weeks.... 

The good news is we continue to be holding roughly steady with wastewater tracking at around 20 times the level we saw this time last year.  

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

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