Covid by Dave

Re-did the Massachusetts New Covid Deaths per Week chart because this week we did extremely well, with only 12 deaths. That's down from 232 the last week of March.

Mass Covid 19 update. Reasonably good news today. Cases ticked up, to 93, but they did a lot more tests, as in 31,484 so the Positive Test Rate stayed at 0.3%. Deaths stayed low too, at one. This is the sixth day in a row where we've had only one or two deaths, and four of those days it was one, so that's very good. Total Confirmed Cases: 659,057 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,640 Some backsliding in the hospitals today. Six more people went into the hospital and two more went into the ICU. Not a disaster, but not the way we want to go.

Mass Covid 19 update. Reasonably good news today, although nine more people went into the hospital. Cases stayed relatively low, at 63, and they did 19,683 tests, so the Positive Test Rate stayed at 0.3%. Deaths stayed low, at one. This is the fifth day in a row with only one or two deaths, hopefully this becomes a trend. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,964 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,639 Nine more people went into the hospital today, ouch. There was no change in the ICU. That brings those numbers to 104 and 31, respectively.

Mass Covid 19 update. Pretty good news today. Cases stayed low, at 41, but it being a Sunday they only did 13,665 tests, so the Positive Test Rate ticked back up to 0.3%. Deaths stayed low, at two. That's four days in a row with only one or two deaths. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,901 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,638 One person got out of the hospital but five more went into the ICU. This ain't over just yet, although thankfully the ICU count is only 31, which is pretty much the lowest it's ever been, give or take five. Those numbers are now 95 and 31.

Updated my Massachusetts New Covid Deaths per Week chart because we are making progress. We were over 60 deaths a week five and six weeks ago, then we were at about 45 for a couple of weeks, then we had a couple of weeks around 30, and this past week was the first time we were under 20. Good progress.

Mass Covid 19 update. Excellent news today. Cases came in really low, at 31, and they did 21,304 tests, so the Positive Test Rate dropped down to 0.1%. That's great. Deaths stayed very low, at one. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,860 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,636 Three people got out of the hospital today, but one went into the ICU. That brings those numbers to 96 and 26, respectively.

Massachusetts Vaccination Update. So far we've got 4,392,548 people with at least one shot, and a total of 4,154,263 fully vaccinated. That works out to be 63.7% of everybody got at least one shot, and 60.2% of everybody is fully vaccinated. If you judge by all people 12 and over, then 74.9% of everybody that's eligible to be vaccinated got at least one shot and 70.9% of that cohort is fully vaccinated. The effects of this effort have been demonstrable. Eight weeks ago we had about 8,000 cases that week. Last week we had 432 cases, this week we had 384 cases. That's a 20x reduction in cases in just eight weeks.

Mass Covid 19 update. More good news today. Cases stayed low, at 56, and they did 30,602 tests, so the Positive Test Rate stayed nice and low at 0.2%. Deaths stayed low too, at two. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,829 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,635 No change in the hospital population today, but six people got out of the ICU, which is nice. That brings those numbers down to 99 and 25, respectively.

Updated my Massachusetts New Covid Cases per Week graph and it's looking pretty good. The last two weeks we had fewer than 500 cases per week. The effects of the state's high vaccination rates are showing.

Mass Covid 19 update. More good news today. Cases stayed low, at 60, and they did 32,214 tests, so the Positive Test Rate stayed nice and low at 0.2%. Deaths dipped down to one. That's nice. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,773 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,633 Three more people went into the hospital today, and two more went into the ICU. That brings those numbers up to 99 and 31, respectively.

Mass Covid 19 update. More good news today. Cases stayed low, at 78, and they did 32,769 tests, so the PTR came in at 0.2%. Deaths stayed low, at 4. Two people went into the hospital today, but one got out of the ICU. That brings those numbers to 96 and 29, respectively.

Mass Covid 19 update. Pretty good news today, especially in the hospitals. Cases stayed pretty low, at 68, and they did 37,713 tests, to the Positive Test Rate stayed nice and low at 0.2%. Deaths stayed pretty low, at five. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,635 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,628 Good day in the hospitals. Nine people got out of the hospital and five got out of the ICU. That brings those numbers down to 94 and 30, respectively. This is the first time in the whole pandemic that we've had fewer than 100 people in the hospital. Yea.

Mass Covid 19 update. More good news today, but a little backsliding in the hospitals. Cases stayed very low, at 33, and they did 20,322 tests, so the Positive Test Rate dropped back down to 0.2%. Deaths were very low, at one. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,567 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,623 Three more people went into the hospital today, and two more went into the ICU. That brings those numbers up to 103 and 35, respectively.

Mass Covid 19 update. More good news today. Cases stayed low, at 48, but they only did 13,926 tests, so the Positive Test Rate ticked up to 0.3%. Deaths stayed low, at five. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,534 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,622 Eight more people got out of the hospital today, and one got out of the ICU. That brings those numbers down to 100 and 33, respectively. Just to note, that prior to these past few weeks, the lowest number of hospitalized people due to Covid was 290 on August 30th. It went up from there to a peak of 2,428 on January 5th. So being at 100 is a great accomplishment. Look forward to it getting lower.

Updated my Massachusetts New Covid Deaths chart to show the progress we've made in this area. We have had the situation improve dramatically. The last week of March we had 245 deaths. This past week we've had 26. That's a 90% reduction.

Mass Covid 19 update. Continuation of low case numbers today. Cases came in at 41, and they did 17,587 tests, so the Positive Test Rate dropped down to 0.2%. Deaths stayed low, at five. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,486 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,617 Little bit of backsliding in the hospitals today. One more person went into the hospital and two more went into the ICU. That brings those numbers up to 108 and 34, respectively.

Given that we just had a whole week of under 100 cases per day, I figured it was a good time to re-do the Massachusetts New Covid Cases per Week chart to see how things looked. Looking pretty good. We only have 2.8% of the caseload we had back in the beginning of April. That's a 97% reduction over the past ten weeks. Nice going Massachusetts.

Mass Covid 19 update. Pretty good news today. Cases stayed below a hundred for the seventh day in a row, at 91, and they did 33,510 tests, so the Positive Test Rate ticked up to 0.3%. Deaths ticked up slightly, to six. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,445 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,612 Three more people got out of the hospital today, and there was no change in the ICU. That brings those numbers to 107 and 32, respectively.

California had a huge spike of cases in December and January, then it dropped down significantly. Given their status as #18 in the most vaccinated rankings, they've enjoyed a steady drop in cases over the past three months.

Arkansas had a huge spike in cases in December and January, then it dropped off dramatically after that. The last two months haven't seen a decline though, and that may be because they are 49th out of 51 states plus DC in vaccination percentage.

I've heard some scuttlebutt about Mass reducing Covid testing, so I did a graph to illustrate the levels of testing over the past couple months. Back in the middle of April, we did 613,945 tests, and discovered 13,648 cases, for a Positive Test Rate of 2.2%. This past week we did 200,085 tests, and discovered 454 cases, for a Positive Test Rate of 0.2%. So we're testing less, but the percentage of people who have the virus is shrinking down to almost nothing. It's literally a tenth of what it was two months ago.

Mass Covid 19 update. More good news today. Cases stayed low, at 71, and they did 39,962 tests so the Positive Test Rate stayed at 0.2%. Deaths stayed low too, at three. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,354 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,606 Five more people got out of the hospital today, and two got out of the ICU. That brings those numbers down to 110 and 32, respectively. Hopefully soon we'll have less than 100 people in the hospital. That will be an accomplishment.

Mass Covid 19 update. More good news today. Cases ticked up slightly, but still remained low, at 82, and they did 35,976 tests so the Positive Test Rate came in at 0.2%. Deaths stayed low, at three. Total Confirmed Cases: 658,283 Total Confirmed Deaths: 17,603 There was no change to the hospital population today but six people got out of the ICU. That brings those numbers to 115 and 34, respectively.