While we wait for the newly-massaged Massachusetts Weekly Report, the Boston Public Health Commission report is out.

Sharp increases in transmission in most neighborhoods.

Over 6% of East Boston has been confirmed infected now, the highest incidence in the city.

Link to report: https://bphc.org/whatwedo/infectious-diseases/Documents/COVID19%20Boston%20Report_2020_Week45.pdf

Wastewater laughs at our puny attempts to hope for a decline in cases.

http://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

Just confirms that the null hypothesis should be continued spread until you see hard evidence that isn't the case.

And using the OLD categories, here's what this week's weekly report looks like. Makes it obvious why they changed it so that red and yellow communities turned green, huh?

The old "yellow/red" threshold was 8 cases per 100k per day.

The new "green/yellow" threshold is 10 cases per 100k per day.

By the new system, every community that was yellow and those that were borderline red magically turn green.

And every other red community turns yellow.

The sole exception is if you're doing badly *and* have a high positive test rate. Though for some reason it's a lower threshold for larger cities and I don't understand that. Honestly this system seems convoluted.