Massachusetts sees fourth straight increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations, decrease in cases, testing

Massachusetts saw an increase in hospitalizations for a fourth straight day in Tuesday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts has seen 143 more positive cases announced today. A decrease from Monday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate remains at 0.8%.

Massachusetts had seen 244 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total cases to 125,866 with 11 more reported dead for a total of 9,118.

9,135 tests were performed on new individuals, almost 1,700 less than yesterday’s report, to increase the amount of individuals tested to 2,105,178. The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 3,476,679.

The 3 Day Average of COVID-19 Deaths lowered to 11.

Hospitalizations have decreased in 91 of the last 134 days, however, they increased by 4 today to see the total rise to 371.
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Nursing home cases and cases by City and Town up to September 16th.
Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

Massachusetts residents subject to COVID-19 quarantine by current status up to September 16th
• Total of individuals subject to quarantine: 84,600
• Total of individuals who have completed monitoring (no longer in quarantine): 82,683
• Total of individuals currently undergoing monitoring/under quarantine: 1,917

According to the CDC, as of September 22nd, the total amount of COVID-19 cases in the country is 6,825,697 with 199,462 dead.

Courtesy of the CDC