Massachusetts will stop daily COVID case count report, switch to weekly

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Division of Public Well being will not launch coronavirus case numbers 5 days every week, they introduced Friday. As a substitute, they will put up COVID-19 knowledge on a weekly foundation.

 “The adjustments taking impact subsequent week are a part of our ongoing efforts to adapt to the pandemic and deal with the metrics most helpful at a given time. The up to date reporting displays the present standing of COVID-19 and its affect,” mentioned State Epidemiologist Dr. Catherine Brown. 

“Whereas all of us have turn into used to checking the numbers daily, monitoring traits over time is definitely essentially the most helpful technique to apply the COVID-19 knowledge,” mentioned Dr. Helen Boucher, Interim Dean of Tufts College College of Medication, Chief Tutorial Officer at Tufts Medication, and member of the Governor’s Medical Advisory Board. “Provided that Massachusetts has probably the greatest vaccination and booster percentages within the nation, these adjustments make sense at this stage in our COVID-19 response.”  

Beginning subsequent week, knowledge can be launched on Thursdays. The inhabitants can be up to date to mirror more moderen census numbers going ahead, the state mentioned. 

Within the Interactive Knowledge Dashboard, the Contact Tracing and Clusters tabs can be faraway from the COVID-19 Circumstances part. Greater training knowledge will even not be obtainable. 

The vaccination report will now be launched on Wednesday as an alternative of Thursday. 

Final yr, the dashboard went down from updates seven-days every week to 5.