Massachusetts COVID-19 active cases drop below 40,000, confirmed/probable deaths pass 15,600

Massachusetts saw a decrease in active cases, positive test rate, and hospitalizations, in Wednesday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts saw 1,322 more positive cases announced today. An increase from Tuesday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate has decreased slightly to 2.20%. Monday’s 2.17% was the lowest it had been since November 3rd.

Massachusetts had seen 967 more positive cases announced yesterday which was the lowest total since early November.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 533,024 with 56 more reported dead (55 confirmed, 1 probable) for a total of 15,623 (15,312 confirmed, 311 probable).

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 15,140,864 after 82,971 new molecular tests.

The 7 day average of confirmed COVID-19 deaths is currently 40.7.

Estimated active cases saw a decrease to 39,916.

Hospitalizations have increased in 92 of the last 154 days and 67 of the last 113 and saw another decrease of 8 to lower the total to 1,088. COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to decrease as of late as there were 2,428 in the Bay State on January 4th. November 28th was the last time that COVID-19 hospitalizations were this low.

Nursing home cases and cluster information issued on February 11th.

Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to the February 11th report, Fall River has a 67.2 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (83.6 last week). New Bedford saw a decrease to 62.4 (was 83.4). Westport is also in the red at 46.5 (was 50.3), Swansea is at 52.8 and was 75.2 last week. Somerset also saw a decrease as they sit at 50.9 (was 72.9). Freetown decreased to 49.7 from 52.9. Dartmouth is currently at 52.7 after seeing 55.6 last week. Acushnet has the highest rate in Bristol County at 73.1 (was 82.7).

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to February 11th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 245,635
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 228,426
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 17,209

Massachusetts Officials have now also issued a “vaccine doses administered and shipped” report updated on February 11th.
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As of February 17th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 27,600,391 cases of COVID-19 with 486,466 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC