Day 77: During the Peak

Massachusetts' numbers are up 7% today. The governor has been saying for a few days now that he considers us in the midst of the peak, and that due to our planning, there is still significant availability of beds for both COVID-19 patients and other emergencies. The IHME projections have also been updated, and they predict tomorrow as our peak (day).

In my non-disease blog, I wrote up a bit of a tutorial about making the Massachusetts cities and towns infection rate map from yesterday, and also how to map the absolute case counts using the same data set:
Click (and zoom in as desired) to enlarge. (This actually works now, after some Blogger tweaking.) The colors are on a log scale for visibility. Towns in gray have no cases. The top ten cities case-wise are Boston, Brockton, Worcester, Lawrence, Lynn, Chelsea, Lowell, Springfield, Cambridge, and Revere, in that order.