Today’s #COVID19 data in Minnesota is sort of like catching our breath after a brutal week.
Cases and positivity rate both ticked down slightly week-over-week, but remain *much* higher than we were — a 7.1% positivity rate, compared to 6.2% last Friday and 5.8% 2 weeks ago.
#COVID19 hospitalizations continue to rise, ESPECIALLY non-ICU, but increasingly ICU bed use, too.
#COVID19 hospitalizations are also rising in the metro, too, where they had been flat and outpaced by Greater MN. (Still need time to see what patterns coalesce here.)
Hard to say exactly what’s going on with regional data. Pretty flat or slightly down most places.
Northwestern MN has seen several days of decline. Could be a blip, but it wouldn’t be a shock if this hard-hit area finally peaked.
Cases dipped week-over-week in every age group except 70+, but remain elevated in all of them.
Vaccinations continue to be slow, in every age group and racial group.
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