Massachusetts sees 81 new COVID-19 deaths as hospitalizations still increasing, active cases drop for second straight day

Massachusetts saw yet another increase in hospitalizations in Wednesday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 4,509 more positive cases announced today. An increase from Tuesday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate saw a slight decrease to 5.92%. The rate was 3.3 on November 23rd.

Massachusetts had seen 3,293 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 322,652 with 81 more reported dead for a total of 11,887.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 10,399,569 after 97,655 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths increased to 48.

Estimated active cases had a decrease for a second day to 81,112.

Hospitalizations have increased in 76 of the last 100 days and 51 of the last 59 and saw an increase by 62 to see the total raise to 2,066.
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Nursing home cases, city and town metrics, and cluster information up to December 16th.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to the December 16th report, Fall River has a 109.2 Average Daily Incident Rate per 100,000 (Last 14 days) (92.37 last week) which is another increase and the fifteenth highest in the state. New Bedford saw a big jump to 111.5 (was 78.80) leaving them thirteenth in the state. Westport is also in the red at 57.6 (was 45.62), Swansea is at 91.8 and was 78.82 last week, and Somerset saw a slight increase to 81.8 (was 80.16). Freetown also saw their rate increase as it now sits at 63.1 from 52.89. Dartmouth is currently at 63.7 after seeing 51.21 last week.

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to December 16th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 151,349
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 132,322
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 19,027

As of December 23rd, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 18,170,062 cases of COVID-19 with 321,734 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC

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