Retiring Guy's Digest: GET ME REWRITE: Putting Berkshire County Massachusetts' current 7-day average of new Covid cases in perspective

Berkshire County currently has the highest rate of new Covid cases per 100,000 residents among Massachusetts' 14 counties.

Daily average of new Covid cases in the county has increased 350% during the past month. On the other hand, daily average of new Covid cases here has decreased 56% since its January 11th peak of 291. (If you've been following this series, we've seen much higher.)

Covid info: New York Times (above and below)

Headline: The Berkshire Eagle

Vaccines work

The number of new cases is nowhere near the spikes of the omicron surge in January, and even when people fall ill, vaccines and use of immunotherapy treatments are keeping hospitalizations down. The total of newly confirmed daily cases nationally is at its lowest level since last summer.
Still, tallies of the virus in Pittsfield wastewater, a reliable predictor of future positive tests, have found increasing concentrations this month, up nearly threefold since late March, amid evidence that the highly transmissible omicron subvariant known as BA.2 is now the form blamed for most new infections, particularly on the East Coast.