Follow the data: COVID trends point to more restrictions, perhaps a lockdown, by Jan. 1
Governor Charlie Baker likes to rely on data to make decisions, especially when it comes to managing the COVID-19 crisis.
One troubling metric is the 20 percent rate of positive diagnoses among those who got tested for the first time over the past seven days. This figure is seen as a leading predictor of hospitalizations.
Add all that up, and it almost certainly means one thing: More drastic restrictions, if not a shutdown, are coming, or should be,by the end of December, according to hospital leaders and epidemiologists.
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