MN reported almost exactly the same number of new #COVID19 cases today as last Monday, but on 30% more tests. The positivity rate ticked down slightly, still hovering around 5%.
New non-ICU hospital admissions are down slightly from a recent peak, while ICU admissions have not yet begun to decline from their peak:
Today is not only a record high number of tests reported on a Monday (when testing usually drops), but for the first time ever, Minnesota is AVERAGING more than 20,000 tests per day. (It’s reported single days above this mark before, but never sustained like this.)
Earlier this month, it looked like MN had a late-August peak in reported cases, then a dip.
Now it looks more like steady rise, interrupted by a temporary, anomalous drop in early September. (Positivity rate, it should be noted, has been doing much less bouncing around.)
Case prevalence in Minnesota by age group has now broken down into four buckets:
- 20-somethings have the most cases per capita
- Adults 30-60 are next
- Then adults 60+
- Then people under 20
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