Massachusetts current COVID-19 hospitalizations passes 1,800, U.S. passes 300,000 deaths

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

Massachusetts has seen 3,720 more positive cases announced today. An increase from Monday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate increased to 5.88%. The rate was 3.3 three weeks ago.

Massachusetts had seen 3,572 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 286,866 with 55 more reported dead for a total of 11,443.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 9,684,933 after 61,236 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths stays at 43.

Estimated active cases decreased for the first time in weeks to 72,587.

Hospitalizations have increased in 69 of the last 92 days and 44 of the last 51 and saw an increase by 46 to see the total raise to 1,834.
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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 15th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 16,317,892 cases of COVID-19 with 300,032 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC

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