New #COVID19 cases in Minnesota are trending flat — but this flatness comes on increasing test volume, so is actually sort of a good thing. Positivity rate is declining, as are new hospitalizations. 
For months, northern Minnesota was largely spared from #COVID19 while the metro suffered.
Today, northern Minnesota is reporting a higher rate of new cases than Hennepin and Ramsey counties ever have. (Expanded testing means this means relatively little. Still striking.)
Today, northern Minnesota is reporting a higher rate of new cases than Hennepin and Ramsey counties ever have. (Expanded testing means this means relatively little. Still striking.)
Northern Minnesota is also currently seeing the state’s highest #COVID19 death rate, though not nearly at the same magnitude as the metro during the nursing home outbreak in May.
No real change in the age structure of Minnesota’s confirmed #COVID19 cases — 20-somethings continue to have the most cases per capita, while under-20s have the least, and everyone else is in between.
No significant backlogged data in today’s report:
On the bad side, the continued high #COVID19 death rates in Minnesota means Minnesota’s 7-day average death rate has passed 10 deaths per day for the first time since June 24. (Remember deaths are a lagging indicator, showing how bad the outbreak was a week or two ago.)
#COVID19 deaths are up in both long-term care settings, and outside of long-term care:
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