Massachusetts on Monday unveiled the long-awaited, interactive search for the coronavirus dashboard, making some of the state’s detailed data on the pandemic more accessible to the public.
See the dashboard here.
Monday’s data showed that the state confirmed more than 375,000 COVID-19 cases during the pandemic. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed 4,358 new cases of the virus, bringing the total to 375,455, and another 60 deaths led to 12,401 deaths.
Another probable death was also reported, which means that 270 deaths are now considered likely related to COVID-19 in the state.
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The percentage of coronavirus tests that return positive, on average, ticked up to 8.5%, the department said.
The number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 increased again to 2,339. Of those hospitalized, 423 were included in intensive care units and 258 are intubated, according to DPH.
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The state is now in full post-holiday growth of coronavirus cases, which is not necessarily fully reflected in the data, Baker said Monday.
“Obviously, due to the holidays, there are a few delays in reporting and fewer people being tested. We expect this to catch up fairly quickly and give us a better picture of our current trends in the coming days,” he said. he said.
The new dashboard was loading when it started just before 5pm, but it seems to be having problems with its server shortly afterwards. A note added to the page later read: “Due to the high volumes of web traffic, some users have had difficulty accessing today’s COVID-19 dashboard. We are working quickly to resolve this issue and look forward to posting the dashboard again soon. ”
The dashboard includes both text and graphical presentations of the different values of the coronavirus, including cases, deaths, tests and hospitalizations, as well as several pauses that provide more details about the values.
Massachusetts Department of Health The trend sheet of the Massachusetts coronavirus dashboard, as it appeared at the beginning, on Monday, January 4, 2020.
The Department of Public Health is taking its data “to a new level by building an interactive dashboard that is easier to use to review,” Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday in a news briefing.
The dashboard will be built more in the future, Baker added.
State data on coronavirus have so far been available in a long .pdf document available for download around 5pm every day. More data, such as the risk of transmitting the coronavirus from city to city and how many vaccines have been administered in the state, are available in the weekly reports.
Other states have had digital dashboards for months, and the Massachusetts version has been running for weeks.
Doctors worry that the increased volume they already see will only get worse when the post-Christmas peak starts to hit.
This fall, several public health experts told NBC10 Boston that state coronavirus data was carefully presented. Dr. Thomas Tsai, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, who studies public health, data policy and science, said it was more important than presenting data in an accessible and interactive way.
He noted that the state of Georgia had contracted its dashboard, which looked beautiful, but displayed questionable data – Atlanta magazine called it a disaster that affected the reputation of the Georgian Department of Public Health – and it was a much worse alternative. to what Massachusetts offered.
“In fact, I think the Massachusetts dashboard actually has a wealth of data that many other states don’t have,” he said, calling the previous state dashboard the equivalent of a Powerpoint presentation that is “very useful.” public health researchers public health response. “