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UPDATE: After writing this I realized that there was an issue with my methodology. The percent difference was not normalized based on the average. I fixed the calculations and came up with a new chart which I added extra details Updated Analysis Montgomery County looks even better in this chartContinue Reading

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As of 11:50pm on Wednesday night, the Montgomery County EMS Jurisdictional system has issued a Blue alert. This means that the county hospital systems are temporarily taxed beyond their limits. Additionally, several individual local hospitals were in Red or Yellow alert. We track these, a few red of yellows areContinue Reading

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Here are a few charts that show vaccination data for the state of Maryland. The first graph shows the percent of the population that has been vaccinated by 1/02/2021. It shows that the National Capital Region (which includes MOCO is lagging significantly behind the rest of the state. Note thatContinue Reading

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Here is the link to the full new order: https://montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/Resources/Files/health-officer-directive-AM-201124.pdf Link to updates guidance from county: Advertisement – By Authority of Friends of Andrew Friedson Rose Hacking, Treasurer https://t.co/LbAV4QG2xX Advertisement New amended masking order 11/24/2020: Wording on previous order on 11/23/2020: Previous Wording before both of these:Continue Reading

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There is a really interesting dashboard on the Maryland Covid page which details the contact tracing information for those that tested positive over the last week (and a separate cumulative chart). This includes where they are employed, what high risk locations they were exposed to, and what types of largeContinue Reading

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Over the past few weeks, we keep seeing that our County’s number of positives per day keeps increasing and I’m sure many are wondering what that means and what the current detailed stats (as of 11/08/2020) reflect for Moco. When this page first started we were doing daily analysis ofContinue Reading

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A vote on new restrictions / updated executive order postponed until Tuesday. At the County Council meeting now they are discussing the changes in the document here: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2020/20201105/20201105_2A-3-2B.pdf On the reasoning for looking at shutting down late night takeout, Maryam Shahzad reports on Twitter references to involving underage drinking andContinue Reading

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This Tracker page for Montgomery County Local Races and Ballot Questions will be updated with live results but check the links for the latest. (NOTE: these are far from final the votes are just starting to come in) Last Update: 11/05/2020 9:30AM Montgomery County Board of Education Latest results: https://results.elections.maryland.gov/elections/2020/results/General/gen_results_2020_4_by_county_16-1.htmlContinue Reading

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After receiving feedback from parents and childcare providers from the proposed executive order that reduced child care facilities to 50% capacity The county council requested and received an updated order: Twitter post on the update from Councilmember Andrew Friedson: Advertisement – By Authority of Friends of Andrew Friedson Rose Hacking,Continue Reading