The purpose of this is to gather information on how the covid-19 pandemic is progressing in Medford, MA. It is not an official site; please go to https://www.medfordma.org/coronavirus-information/ for official information.

I am mostly doing this for the convenience of my family who live in Medford – they wanted to see plots of things like positivity rate over time.

Please keep my family, and yours, and yourself safe by following public health guidelines. Find a vaccine at https://vaxfinder.mass.gov/ and go here for info on boosters, masking, and more.

Positivity rates (what percent of tests show covid; if this is high, it could indicate that many other cases are being missed).

Hospital data

The US Department of Health and Human Services gives data on hospital usage. Here are data of ICU bed availability for hospitals in this area with at least 25 staffed ICU beds, using data from the week starting 2023-07-30.

Hospital ICU beds available ICU beds total Percent occupied
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 18 121 85
Boston Children’s Hospital 26 134 81
Boston Medical Center Corporation 15 89 83
Brigham And Women’s Hospital 19 162 88
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington 25 61 60
Massachusetts General Hospital 8 148 95
Tufts Medical Center 9 94 90

The state also releases information about conditions in all hospitals in the state:

Including the number of patients in the ICU for covid:

And those intubated:

Plotting percentage of ICU patients with covid over time (up to the week starting 2023-07-30). Some hospitals have much more frequently updated data than others; some is fairly gappy. This just plots the hospitals that average at least 25 staffed adult ICU beds per week.