COVID Transmission in Essex County and Peabody, Massachusetts

Jerry Halberstadt Sat, 04/23/2022 - 20:45

August 4, 2022. Information about transmission and ongoing current infections in Essex County and Peabody, Massachusetts. Links to data sources enable the reader to learn the situation in their locality. The sources used are the CDC data on transmission; levels of COVID found in wastewater; and % positivity in Essex County and Peabody. These are all leading indicators preceding cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

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Community Transmission in Essex is High

Massachusetts Community Transmission
Current 7-days is Thu Jul 28 2022 - Wed Aug 03 2022 for case rate and Tue Jul 26 2022 - Mon Aug 01 2022 for percent positivity.  https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=Massachusetts&data-type=Risk&list_select_county=25009&null=Risk

UPDATE FOR PEABODY & ESSEX COUNTY on July 28, 2022

Reported on:   8/4/2022
Period:     7/17/2022 to 7/30/2022

Peabody 14-day Percent Positivity: 8.31%

Essex County 14-day Percent Positivity: 9.02%

Biobot wastewater counts for Peabody & Salem @ the South Essex Sewage District: Latest report, Peabody August 1, ~1,300 count viral RNA/mL down sharply. Source: Peabody graph. Samples are currently taken 1 - 7 times a week and analyzed by Biobot Analytics, a wastewater epidemiology company based in Cambridge, MA. The graphs represent the “7-day averages” which are the average viral copies over the past 7 days in each treatment plant. 

NOTE: NEW VARIANTS BA4 & BA5 ARE ALMOST LIKE A NEW DISEASE, ABLE TO SLIP THROUGH IMMUNE DEFENSES, AND ARE SPREADING RAPIDLY. TAKE CARE!

Leading Indicators of COVID in the Community

COVID-19 Dashboard

Massachusetts Department of Public Health, COVID-19 Dashboard, Weekly Data by City and Town This is the source for positivity data cited in this paper.

"Recent research [not yet peer-reviewed, and thus should not be relied on] shows that previous infection with an older variant (such as Alpha, Beta or Delta) offers some protection against reinfection with BA.4 or BA.5, and that a prior Omicron infection is substantially more effective."—nature doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01950-2 

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