Another 67 #COVID19 deaths reported in Minnesota today, though that’s down from 94 yesterday and 75 last Saturday. The 7-day average is 63 deaths per day, just under a record high. Not replicating yesterday’s jump is welcome, but no sign yet of any decline in mortality. 
Cases have gone up for the third day in a row — but each time lower than the same day last week, so the *trend* is fairly aggressively downward. The 7-day average is now 4,320 cases per day, down from 6,771 two weeks ago.
Similarly, Minnesota’s positivity rate is up day-over-day, but *down* week-over-week. The 7-day average is down to 9%, the lowest since late October.
Yesterday, Minnesota’s case decline put us to return to pre-spike case levels by Christmas Day. Today’s improvement accelerates that a little bit: if trends continue we’ll now get back to the ~1,500 cases per day level on Dec. 24:
Cases are falling in every region and every age bracket:
Hospital admissions and bed use are both still trending down:
Something else to note about Minnesota’s downward case trend today: about 5% of today’s newly reported cases were more than 2 weeks old, so the number of recent cases is down by even more than it appears. Here’s cases by sample date (which is distorted by Thanksgiving, n.b.):
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