Massachusetts sees over 5,000 COVID-19 cases for third straight day as U.S. sees over 430,000 cases in two days

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

Massachusetts has seen 5,356 more positive cases announced today. An increase from Friday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate increased to 5.40%. The rate was 3.3 less than two weeks ago.

Massachusetts had seen 5,192 more positive cases announced yesterday.

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 242,812 with 41 more reported dead for a total of 10,953.

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 8,880,813 after 106,116 new molecular tests.

The 3 day average of COVID-19 deaths increased again to 35.

Estimated active cases increased to 54,199.

Hospitalizations have increased in 61 of the last 82 days and 36 of the last 41, and increased by 34 to see the total raise to 1,428.
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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 5th, according to the CDC, the United States has seen 14,255,535 cases of COVID-19 with 277,825 reported deaths.

Courtesy of the CDC