Massachusetts COVID-19 report shows decrease in amount of deaths, cases, and active cases

Massachusetts saw an increase in hospitalizations in Tuesday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 2,567 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Monday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate saw an increase to 5.94%. Sunday’s rate of 5.85% was the lowest the rate had been since the beginning of December. The rate was 3.3 on November 23rd.

Massachusetts had seen 3,224 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 454,102 with 45 more reported dead (45 confirmed, 0 probable) for a total of 13,749 (13,469 confirmed, 280 probable).

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 12,454,145 after 55,565 new molecular tests.

The 7 day average of COVID-19 deaths is currently 56.

Estimated active cases decreased to 93,300.

Hospitalizations have increased in 89 of the last 127 days and 64 of the last 86 and saw an increase of 7 to see the total rise to 2,213. Before the last two days of increases, there were three straight days of decreases in hospitalizations, four in five days, and 10 out of the last 12 days.

Nursing home cases and cluster information issued on January 14th.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to the January 14th report, Fall River has a 153.6 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (112.5 last week) which is 7th in the state. New Bedford saw an increase to 134.3 (was 97.9). Westport is also in the red at 96.4 (was 67.4), Swansea is at 109.3 and was 77.5 last week. Somerset also saw an increase as they sit at 104.9 (was 80.6). Freetown increased to 112.1 from 82.9. Dartmouth is currently at 113.2 after seeing 88.2 last week.

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to January 14th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 205,082
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 180,573
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 24,509

Massachusetts Officials have now also issued a “vaccine doses administered and shipped” report updated on January 14th.
weekly-covid-19-vaccination-report-1-14-2021

As of January 17th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 23,653,919 cases of COVID-19 with 394,495 reported deaths (Updates were not done by the CDC the last two days due to the holiday).
Courtesy of the CDC