Massachusetts COVID-19 active cases near 85,000, active hospitalizations near 2,000

Massachusetts saw yet another increase in active cases and hospitalizations in Monday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 3,760 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Sunday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate saw an increase to 5.94%. The rate was 3.3 on November 23rd.

Massachusetts had seen 4,162 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 314,850 with 41 more reported dead for a total of 11,759.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 10,239,836 after 61,067 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths decreased to 45.

Estimated active cases increased to 84,368.

Hospitalizations have increased in 74 of the last 98 days and 49 of the last 57 and saw an increase by 72 to see the total lower to 1,991.
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Nursing home cases, city and town metrics, and cluster information up to December 16th.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to the December 16th report, Fall River has a 109.2 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (92.37 last week) which is another increase and the fifteenth highest in the state. New Bedford saw a big jump to 111.5 (was 78.80) leaving them thirteenth in the state. Westport is also in the red at 57.6 (was 45.62), Swansea is at 91.8 and was 78.82 last week, and Somerset saw a slight increase to 81.8 (was 80.16). Freetown also saw their rate increase as it now sits at 63.1 from 52.89. Dartmouth is currently at 63.7 after seeing 51.21 last week.

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to December 16th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 151,349
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 132,322
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 19,027

As of December 21st, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 17,790,376 cases of COVID-19 with 316,844 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC