Thread by @dhmontgomery

Minnesota’s #COVID19 recovery continues. We’re now onto 10 straight days of declining positivity rate, and 7 straight days of falling case totals (both based on averages).

Hospitalizations are a little messier (one would expect this metric to lag cases/positivity by a bit) but there are still real signs of improvement here, too:

Interestingly, though hospital admissions data seems to be trending own, #COVID19 bed use in ICUs is still rising. (Again, ICU metrics perhaps trail regular hospitalization trends…)

Cases, positivity and hospitalization rates in Minnesota are ALL lower now than they were two weeks ago.

#COVID19 deaths are flat.

Vaccination rates were up slighty today — really more of a “not going own” than “meaningfully up,” but that’s still better than our recent trend!

Just under 55% of Minnesota adults have at least one shot; 40% are fully vaccinated.

Still no meaningful decline *statewide* in Minnesota’s share of vaccine doses issued within 3 and 7 days. (This isn’t to say there might not be regional issues.)

Close to half the population of Hennepin and Ramsey counties — half the *population,* not adults — has at least one dose.

Around 1/3 of the population in east-central MN does.

Cases are falling in every age group — but at a much slower rate among children (most of whom are ineligible for vaccines so far).

We could see children with the fastest growth rate in confirmed cases for the first time ever in MN's pandemic soon.