Boston-Proper COVID-19 Update (20-Jan-2023 data)

Of the three thresholds for concern that had reached previously, all got slightly better though 2 are still more than twice the threshold and the third is still higher than it had been all of December.  

Test Positivity rate:

Threshold: 5.0%

Current:   11.7% (down from 13.2% which was down from 14.6% the week before ... though still up from 23-Dec-2022's 10.3%)

Number of neighborhoods with positivity rate >= 8.0%

Threshold: 4 or more (of 16 total)

Current:   14 (down from the last 2 weeks' 15 but same as the 30-Dec-2022 and up from 23-Dec-2022's 11)

Confirmed Daily Adult COVID-19 Hospitalizations (7-day moving average)

Threshold: 200.0

Current:     283 (down from 303.3 but roughly the same as the week prior's 287.7 and still up from all Dec's weeks: 30-Dec-2022 - 271.9 and 23-Dec-2022 - 233.9 and below 200 before that)

And the occupied adult non-surge ICU beds is still below the threshold but just barely...and is not really getting better but instead just essentially hovering well above the target and, for 3 of the last 5 weeks, just inches from reaching the threshold of concern:

Threshold: 95.0%

Current:     93.4% which is roughly the same as last week's 93.5% up from 91.4% the first week of January and 30-Dec-2022's 89.6%, but still down from 93.7% from 23-Dec-2022)

Essentially, Boston looks to be slowly getting better but still in a pretty bad place.