Massachusetts COVID-19 hospitalizations, active cases, positive test rate continue to increase Monday

Massachusetts saw another increase in hospitalizations, active cases, and positive test rate in Monday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 1,967 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Sunday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate increased again to 3.17% from 3.06%.

Massachusetts had seen 2,076 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 184,511 with 12 more reported dead for a total of 10,110.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 7,321,731 after 53,265 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths dropped slightly to 21.

Estimated active cases increased again to 31,768.

Hospitalizations have increased in 45 of the last 63 days and 20 of the last 22 and increased by 44 today to see the total raise to 781.
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Nursing home cases, city and town metrics, and cluster information up to November 11th.

Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to Thursday’s report, Fall River has a 62.5 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (41.8 last week) which is the fourth highest in the state among communities in the red. New Bedford sits at 29.9. Westport is also in the red at 44.8, Swansea is at 37.6, and Somerset 47.1.

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to November 11th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 114,110
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 107,158
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 6,952

As of November 16th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 10,984,398 cases of COVID-19 with 245,470 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC