These charts show how much COVID-19 is expected to surge in Mass.

According to projection models, the COVID situation is only expected to worsen, my colleagues Amanda Kaufman and Ryan Huddle report.

“I do think we’re going to see a rise in cases over the over the next two weeks because of holiday gatherings," Dr. Kimon Zachary, an infectious diseases physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, told them. “Hopefully that will be blunted by individuals practicing good sense and testing before gatherings, but unfortunately, access to testing has been a challenge this holiday season.”