As the sewage forecast, Covid-19 rates now going up in a vertical line

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health yesterday reported 27,612 caller confirmed Covid-19 cases, the latest successful a drawstring of grounds precocious one-day numbers for the pandemic.

The authorities besides reported 54 caller Covid-19 deaths. That is obscurity adjacent the decease rates seen astatine the commencement of the pandemic - the grounds is 190 connected April 23, 2020 - it does correspond different summation successful regular decease numbers for the existent surge.

There were besides 2,426 patients successful Massachusetts hospitals with Covid-19, different summation for the existent surge, though arsenic with deaths, inactive obscurity adjacent the numbers seen successful the archetypal surge, but present approaching the highest seen successful the erstwhile wintertime surge.

As for the MWRA's Deer Island sewage investigating samples, which predicted skyrocketing lawsuit counts? You don't privation to know. But arsenic Paul Levy, who oversaw operation of the works backmost successful the time joked this morning:

Wonder if the illustration should beryllium changed to a logarithmic standard truthful it could acceptable successful much easily!