Massachusetts passes 40,000 currently active COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations increase

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

Massachusetts has seen 1,785 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Sunday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate increased to 3.06% from 3.02%.

Massachusetts had seen 2,721 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 201,835 with 18 more reported dead for a total of 10,531.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 7,920,042 after 52,280 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths lowered to 23 from 24.

Estimated active cases increased again to 40,202.

Hospitalizations have increased in 50 of the last 70 days and 25 of the last 29 and increased by 29 today to see the total raise to 922.
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Nursing home cases, city and town metrics, and cluster information up to November 18th.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to Thursday’s report, Fall River has a 86.2 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (62.5 last week) which is the third highest in the state among communities in the red. New Bedford sits at 39.2. Westport is also in the red at 46.0, Swansea nearly doubled last week’s number to 65.8, and Somerset saw an increase of over 10 to 58.6.

Bristol County has the second worst rate at 41.8 with Dukes County first at 44.6.

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to November 18th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 120,415
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 112,228
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 8,187

As of November 23rd, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 12,175,921 cases of COVID-19 with 255,958 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC