Another day, another record-bad #COVID19 report in Minnesota. 5,924 newly reported cases, just three days after MN first crossed *4,000*: 
EVEN WORSE: Another day of 30+ #COVID19 deaths means Minnesota is officially seeing the most deadly phase of its outbreak. More deadly than May! The seven-day average death rate now is nearly 26/day. It peaked in May below 25/day.
Minnesota’s positivity rate is also continuing to rise, now up to a 7-day average of 13.9%. The all-time record here from May is 16.3%.
New #COVID19 hospital admissions also continue to set new records day after day:
Minnesota now has more than 30,000 active, confirmed #COVID19 cases for the first time — less than *1 week* after Minnesota first crossed the 20,000 active case threshold.
Minnesota's #COVID19 outbreak is in an exponential growth phase. At the current rate total cases will double in 26 days.
Put another way, it took us 8 months to get our first 180,000 confirmed cases. We’re now on track to get our second 180,000 in less than 1 month.
Put another way, it took us 8 months to get our first 180,000 confirmed cases. We’re now on track to get our second 180,000 in less than 1 month.
New #COVID19 deaths, meanwhile, are on track to double every 68 days. That means about 2,000 more deaths before Christmas at the current rate.
#COVID19 cases are spiking everywhere. Hennepin and Ramsey counties are currently averaging about 65 new cases per 100,000 residents per day. For context, that’s where northwestern MN was just over a week ago, when they had by far the worst outbreak in the state. (Now: 95/day.)
#COVID19 cases are at record highs in every age group in Minnesota, including people over 60, who are at greatest risk of dying or requiring hospitalization:
Though Minnesota’s testing volume remains high, this explosion in #COVID19 cases isn’t due to testing (as the simultaneous rise of deaths & hospitalizations should indictate). New cases are growing much faster than tests:
Here’s new #COVID19 cases in Minnesota by the date the sample was taken, rather than when it was reported to @mnhealth. Same explosive rise:
@mnhealth And here’s the sample-date graph without the incomplete data from the past week filtered. I’d expect more than 6,000 positive cases to come out of people who get tested tomorrow (Mondays usually have the most new cases as people go in to get their weekend symptoms checked out)
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