Massachusetts COVID-19 cases near 350,000 as positive rate, hospitalizations, continue to climb

Massachusetts saw an increase in hospitalizations and positive test rate in Tuesday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 3,659 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Monday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate saw another increase to 7.58% from 6.68%. The rate was 3.3 on November 23rd.

Massachusetts had seen 4,060 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 346,423 with 58 more reported dead for a total of 12,218.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 10,762,822 after 49,229 new molecular tests.

The 7 day average of COVID-19 deaths remained at 49.

Estimated active cases decreased to 78,215.

Hospitalizations have increased in 80 of the last 106 days and 55 of the last 65, and saw an increase by 27 to see the total raise to 2,259.
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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 29th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 19,232,843 cases of COVID-19 with 334,029 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC

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