Watertown, MA COVID-19 Trends (last updated 3/15/21)

The purpose of this document is to show changes in COVID-19 activity in the Watertown community over time. It was created in November, 2020.
This document is a compilation of select COVID-19 metrics for Watertown, Massachusetts, based on three public reports:
- Watertown Town Manager's Coronavirus Update
- Watertown Public Schools (WPS) COVID-19 Metrics Dashboard
- MA Department of Public Health (DPH) COVID-19 Weekly Public Health Report and the Watertown Town Manager's Coronavirus Update
Report links are below. Reports contain definitions for some metris and additional data. NR = Not Reported.

Watertown Town Watertown Public

Manager's Coronavirus Schools COVID-19 MA DPH COVID-19 Weekly Public Health Reports (3)
Update (1) Dashboard (2)
Week * Confirmed Corona- Avg. Daily
Pos. Cases Pos. Cases Total Case Count Relative Total Tests Total Positive Percent Change
Cases Town virus Incidence Rate
(students/staff (students/staff Case (Last 14 Change in Total Tests (Last 14 Tests (Last 14 Positivity Percent
Employees Fatalities in school) not in school) per 100,000
Count Days) Case Counts days) Days) (Last 14 days) Positivity
(to date) (to date) (Last 14 days)

3/11/21 32 33 2063 62 13.4 Lower 86351 6962 80 1.15% Lower

3/4/21 32 33 2036 79 17.1 Lower 82991 6517 97 1.49% Lower
2/25/21 32 33 2009 89 19.2 Lower 79439 6365 105 1.65% Lower
2/18/21 27 33 1970 113 24.4 Lower 76260 6701 132 1.97% Lower
2/11/21 25 33 1921 133 28.8 Lower 72964 6792 155 2.28% Lower
2/4/21 25 30 (2/1) 3 (2/1) 2 1844 157 33.9 Lower 69562 7183 185 2.58% Lower
1/28/21 25 30 (1/25) 0 (1/25) 5 1779 235 50.8 Lower 66071 7161 278 3.88% Lower
1/21/21 25 30 - - 1701 295 63.8 No Change 62201 7609 342 4.49% Lower
1/14/21 25 30 - - 1563 266 63.8 Higher 58842 6884 338 4.91% Lower
1/7/21 20 30 - - 1402 258 55.8 Higher 54909 5881 302 5.14% Higher
12/31/20 19 28 (12/28) 15 1280 229 49.5 Lower 51890 6276 277 4.41% Lower
12/25/20 15 28 (12/21) 5 1144 236 51 Lower 48791 6102 287 4.70% Higher
12/17/20 14 28 (12/14) 4 1023 241 52.1 Higher 45230 6545 285 4.35% Higher
12/11/20 NR 28 (12/7) 2 889 181 39.13 Higher 42053 5797 212 3.66% HIgher
12/3/20 10 26 (11/30) 2 765 123 26.6 Higher 38847 5156 145 2.81% Higher
11/25/20 - - (11/23) 5 701 108 23.4 Higher 36272 5493 123 2.24% Higher
11/19/20 10 24 (11/16) 4 638 89 19.2 Higher 33153 4875 97 1.99% Higher
11/12/20 10 24 (11/9) 3 592 70 15.1 Higher 30425 4508 83 1.84% Higher
11/5/20 10 24 (11/2) 2 541 54 11.7 Higher 28170 4314 69 1.60% Higher
10/29/20 7 24 ... ... 514 34 7.3 Higher 25888 4015 43 1.07% Higher
10/22/20 7 24 ... ... 485 23 5 Higher 23614 4035 30 0.74% No Change
10/14/20 7 24 ... ... 471 21 4.5 Higher 21509 3870 28 0.72% Higher
10/7/20 7 24 ... ... 462 15 3.2 Higher 19545 3484 19 0.55% No Change
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8/26/20 7 24 ... ... 420 14 3 Higher 9891 1886 15 0.80% Lower

Sources:
(1) Town Manager's Coronavirus Update: https://www.watertown-ma.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=1 (data for some weeks no longer availalbe)
(2) WPS COVID-19 Metrics Dashboard - Positive Cases among in-person students and staff only: https://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/cms/One.aspx?portalId=190103&pageId=25894973
(3) Archive of COVID-19 Weekly Public Health Reports: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/archive-of-covid-19-weekly-public-health-reports
* Dates are based on MA DPH COVID-19 Weekly Public Health Report; The Town Manager's Coronavirus Update and WPS COVID-19 Metrics Dashboard dates are within 1-2 days of it.

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