Massachusetts COVID-19 daily reported cases drop below 5,000 for first time in days, hospitalizations continue increase

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

Massachusetts has seen 4,968 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Friday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate decreased to 5.60%. The rate was 3.3 two and a half just over two weeks ago.

Massachusetts had seen 5,475 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 274,897 with 47 more reported dead for a total of 11,307.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 9,477,319 after 99,719 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths remain at 45.

Estimated active cases increased to 67,754.

Hospitalizations have increased in 66 of the last 89 days and 41 of the last 48 and saw an increase by 65 to see the total raise to 1,670.
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Nursing home cases, city and town metrics, and cluster information up to December 9th.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to the December 9th report, Fall River has a 92.37 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (75.3 last week) which is the tenth highest in the state. New Bedford saw a big jump to 78.80 (was 48.3). Westport is also in the red at 45.62 (was 44.8), Swansea is at 78.82 and was 51.5 last week, and Somerset saw a marked increase to 80.16 (was 50.1). Freetown also saw their rate increase as it now sits at 52.89 from 33.2. Dartmouth is currently at 51.21 after seeing 47.7 last week.

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to December 9th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 139,367
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 126,652
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 12,715

As of December 12th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 15,718,811 cases of COVID-19 with 294,535 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC

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