Massachusetts passes 61,000 currently active cases of COVID-19 with 89 newly reported deaths

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

Massachusetts has seen 5,675 more positive cases announced today. An increase from Tuesday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate increased to 5.86%. The rate was 3.3 just over two weeks ago.

Massachusetts had seen 3,627 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 259,324 with 89 more reported dead for a total of 11,166.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 9,181,066 after 109,009 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths increased to 43 from 36.

Estimated active cases increased to 61,181.

Hospitalizations have increased in 64 of the last 86 days and 39 of the last 45 and saw an increase by 24 to see the total raise to 1,576.
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Nursing home cases, city and town metrics, and cluster information up to December 2nd.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to the December 3rd report, Fall River has a 75.3 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (92.3 last week) which is the fourth highest in the state. New Bedford sits at 48.3 (was 45.6). Westport is also in the red at 44.8 (was 49.0), Swansea is at 51.5 and was 69.0 last week, and Somerset saw a decrease to 50.1 (was 57.5). Freetown saw their rate increase as it now sits at 33.2 from 31.6. Dartmouth is currently at 47.7

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to December 2nd
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 126,742
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 115,755
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 10,987

As of December 9th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 15,040,175 cases of COVID-19 with 285,351 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC

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