New Bedford one of two Massachusetts communities still high risk for virus

Massachusetts saw a decrease in active cases, positive test rate, and hospitalizations in Thursday’s COVID-19 report.

Massachusetts saw 538 more positive cases announced today, an increase from Wednesday’s report. The 7 day weighted average positive test rate decreased slightly from 1.05% to 1.03%. Sunday’s 1.00% was the lowest since September 27th.

Massachusetts had seen 425 more positive cases announced yesterday which was the lowest since September.

Courtesy of MDPH

The Massachusetts Department of Health statistics show a rise in total confirmed cases to 658,441 with 9 reported dead (9 confirmed, 1 probable) for a total of 17,803 (17,442 confirmed, 361 probable).

The overall amount of tests administered in Massachusetts is now 22,539,180 after 56,711 new molecular tests.

The 7 day average of confirmed COVID-19 deaths increased from 8.0 to 9.3. Wednesday’s 5.4 rate was the lowest since the beginning of the pandemic. At the beginning of February, the average death rate was 70+.

Estimated active cases saw a decrease by 400+ to 11,507. In the last 29 days, active cases have decreased by over 22,600.

Hospitalizations have increased in 92 of the last 192 days, but saw an increase of 5 to raise the total to 327. Hospitalizations have decreased in 26 of the last 30 days after a period of mainly increases. There were 2,428 in the Bay State on January 4th. Tuesday’s total of 326 active hospitalizations was the lowest since October 16th.

Nursing home cases and cluster information issued on May 20th.

Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report

According to the May 20th report, Fall River has a 15.8 Average Daily COVID-19 Rate per 100,000 population (Last 14 days) (19.7 last week). New Bedford, who has the highest rate in Bristol County, saw a decrease to 21.9 (was 29.1). Westport saw a decrease to 6.0 (was 11.1), Swansea is at 14.3, a decrease, and was 14.8 last week. Somerset saw a decrease as they sit at 12.7 (was 14.3). Freetown stands at 7.9, a decrease from 9.5. Dartmouth is currently at 4.4, a decrease from last week’s 13.3. Acushnet decreased to 19.1 (was 24.6). Berkley is at 9.4 and was 10.5 last week.

2 Massachusetts communities are still in the red (high risk) which is down from 6 last week. 13 were in the red the week before. Lawrence and New Bedford.

Massachusetts Officials have issued a “vaccine doses administered and shipped” report updated on May 20th.