Massachusetts approaching 12,000 deaths in COVID-19 cases, area towns see case increases

Massachusetts saw yet another increase in hospitalizations in Thursday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 5,655 more positive cases announced today. An increase from Wednesday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate saw another decrease to 5.76%. The rate was 3.3 on November 23rd.

Massachusetts had seen 4,509 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 328,307 with 76 more reported dead for a total of 11,963.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 10,514,045 after 114,476 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths increased to 52.

Estimated active cases had a decrease for a second day to 80,800.

Hospitalizations have increased in 77 of the last 101 days and 52 of the last 60 and saw an increase by 29 to see the total raise to 2,095.
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Nursing home cases, city and town metrics, and cluster information up to December 23rd.

Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to the December 23rd report, Fall River has a 103.6 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (109.2 last week) which is a decrease and the thirteenth highest in the state. New Bedford saw a decrease to 100.9 (was 111.5) leaving them fifteenth in the state. Westport is also in the red at 68.6 (was 57.6), Swansea is at 70.8 and was 91.8 last week, and Somerset saw a slight increase to 86.0 (was 81.8). Freetown also saw their rate increase as it now sits at 83.7 from 63.1. Dartmouth is currently at 62.9 after seeing 63.7 last week.

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to December 23rd
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 170,563
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 139,512
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 31,051

Massachusetts Officials have now also issued a “vaccine doses administered and shipped” report.
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As of December 24th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 18,391,571 cases of COVID-19 with 325,096 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC

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