This was a draft for the Shoestring Covid tracker, which is now live and updated every Friday by noon.
County and State Data
New case totals for week ending 3/11, per capita total using 2019 US census populations, CDC transmission level classification.
Hampshire – 223 new cases, 138.7 cases per 100K, CDC Red/High (prior week 271, 168.5 per 100K)
Hampden – 834 new cases, 178.8 cases per 100K, CDC Red/High (prior week 908, 194.7 per 100K)
Franklin – 48 new cases, 68.4 cases per 100K, CDC Orange/Substantial (prior week 30, 42.7 per 100K)
Massachusetts – 9353 new cases, 143.2 cases per 100K, CDC Red/High(prior week 9869, 143.2 per 100K)
Percentage of residents vaccinated
Hampshire – at least one dose 20%, fully vaccinated 12%
Hampden – at least one dose 18%, fully vaccinated 10%
Franklin – at least one dose 22%, fully vaccinated 11%
Current vaccination eligibility
Mass vaccination site sign-up (for all MA residents); check with your health care provider and local health board for other options.
Diagnosed cases of new variants of concern
From the CDC; the MassDPH does not maintain a public database. (Note that new variant testing rates remain very low in Massachusetts as well as the US as a whole in comparison to Canada and Europe).
Town and City Data
These tables provide totals of new Covid-19 cases for the weeks ending at the dates shown in the column headings. The per capita rates are color coded according to the CDC transmission level metric with Red indicating a High level, Orange Substantial, Yellow Moderate and Blue Low. Follow this link for an explanation of the metric, and a comparison with the one the MassDPH uses. Further details about the data and the tables are provided below.
These weekly totals are differences between totals from MassDPH public health reports from one week to the next (the reports came out two days after the dates shown above). Some inaccuracies in weekly totals calculated in this way may occur because of updates in earlier data (see e.g. –1 for Hatfield). Weekly totals per 100K based on populations supplied in the downloadable dashboard data. Asterisks indicate instances where one week’s total was given as <5, so the difference could not be calculated. “Change” is the current week over the last one; values in red are increases (values greater than 1). Blank values in Change indicate that one week had 0 cases, so a ratio could not be calculated. The county totals and populations in these tables are the sums over the cities and towns. “UMass” in the Hampshire table shows weekly totals from data downloaded from the UMass Amherst dashboard. The UMass weeks end a day earlier than the dates shown; these were the weeks that aligned best with Amherst in the state data.