After taking yesterday off, we’ve got new #COVID19 stats for Minnesota. These stats are what would have ordinarily been released *yesterday* — that is, they’re data reported to the state through 4 p.m. on Thursday.
2,170 new cases takes the 7-day average down to 2,112/day.
2,170 new cases takes the 7-day average down to 2,112/day.
New MN cases continue to trend downward, but at a slowing rate. Today saw the 7-day average for new cases fall by 81 cases from yesterday. That’s the smallest drop in this trendline since it fell by 70 on Dec. 8:
These case totals came on strong but not overwhelming testing volume. The positivity rate also continued to fall week-over-week, but pretty slowly. The 7-day average is still around 5.3%.
Another 57 newly reported #COVID19 deaths today, still a very high number. But it’s down from 65 last Friday, so MN’s average death rate keeps trending slowly down, to 55/day. It was 62/day a week ago.
No halt to the steady decline in new #COVID19 hospitalizations, but they’re not back to pre-spike levels, either:
With just under a week left to go, December 2020 has reported 1,514 #COVID19 deaths, already the most in any month this year.
December has reported 88,267 confirmed #COVID19 cases in Minnesota, just over half of November’s record 170,594. (Note that limited testing makes spring case figures severe underestimates.)
Tomorrow at 11 a.m., @mnhealth will release two days of data in one: from 4 p.m. on Dec. 24 through 4 p.m. on Dec. 26. Keep this in mind — we could, for ex., report 102 deaths, which would be a 1-day record, except it wouldn’t be 1 day, it’d be 2 days with an average of 51/day.
@mnhealth Yes, I asked @mnhealth if they could break out what the data would have been for each day. They said they couldn’t do it. So don’t @ me about this.
Back to my vacation for another 23.5 hours!
Back to my vacation for another 23.5 hours!
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