Minnesota’s #COVID19 cases continue to decline rapidly — just over 3,000 newly reported cases today, compared to 5,300 last Monday. The 7-day average is down to about 3,700/day, or about where things were on Nov. 7. 
At this rate, Minnesota’s average daily newly reported #COVID19 cases will be back to pre-surge levels before Christmas:
Last Monday’s tests produced 4,720 tests, down from 7,617 the Monday prior, 7,962 before then, and 8,702 the Monday before that.
And these drops in case numbers aren’t a factor of low testing. The positivity rate is dropping, too. Today’s daily positivity rate was 6.7%, down from 8.3% last Monday and 13.4% the week before. The 7-day average positivity rate is 8.6%.
#COVID19 hospital admissions are dropping, too, though we’ve had a couple days now of ICU rates sort of plateauing that I’m watching.
18 newly reported deaths today is down from 85 yesterday, but Mondays and Tuesdays often have low death totals. Last Monday had 21 deaths. The 7-day average is 65 deaths/day, down very slightly from what it was yesterday, and way up from past weeks:
A massive plunge the last two days in the number of active, confirmed #COVID19 cases, as the nearly 18,000 cases MN reported the Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving finally cycle out of the average.
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