Today’s #COVID19 data in Minnesota is sort of like catching our breath after a brutal week.

Cases and positivity rate both ticked down slightly week-over-week, but remain *much* higher than we were — a 7.1% positivity rate, compared to 6.2% last Friday and 5.8% 2 weeks ago.
#COVID19 hospitalizations continue to rise, ESPECIALLY non-ICU, but increasingly ICU bed use, too.
#COVID19 hospitalizations are also rising in the metro, too, where they had been flat and outpaced by Greater MN. (Still need time to see what patterns coalesce here.)
Hard to say exactly what’s going on with regional data. Pretty flat or slightly down most places.

Northwestern MN has seen several days of decline. Could be a blip, but it wouldn’t be a shock if this hard-hit area finally peaked.
Cases dipped week-over-week in every age group except 70+, but remain elevated in all of them.
Vaccinations continue to be slow, in every age group and racial group.

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7 Oct
Today’s #COVID19 stats in Minnesota continued to tick up, with positivity rate now at 7.2%. Thankfully, we didn’t see the same explosive growth we’ve seen of late, just minor upticks. (Cases actually dropped week-over-week, but on less reported testing, so this means nothing.)
In general, though, our trend right now is an outbreak that is not just expanding but accelerating.
The number of #COVID19 hospital patients continues to rise, with the silver lining that ICU bed counts are still flat.
Read 9 tweets
6 Oct
The bad #COVID19 news continues in MN — partially explained by some data snafus, but mostly very real.

Not only are new cases expanding, they’re *accelerating*. Same for positivity rate, now over 7%.
Bad news: newly reported cases in MN nearly doubled week-over-week
Less bad news: But some of this was a data error due to cases delayed from yesterday’s report
Still bad news: Yesterday was already showing a huge increase, we just shifted part of it back a day.
The Cases and Positivity lines here are moving upwards, which means those stats aren’t just rising but accelerating. This is bad news.

No sign of this in hospitalizations yet, but this often lags case reports.
Read 7 tweets
5 Oct
Today’s #COVID19 data in Minnesota is bad news, almost all around. Not only are cases still rising, but after weeks of plateauing so is average positivity rate — up nearly a full percentage point in a week, to 6.6%, the highest since the tail end of the Fall 2020 wave.
Also concerning: after a period where cases were rising among KIDS but not among ADULTS, right now cases are rising in all age brackets.

That includes seniors 70+.
One bright side: ICU hospitalizations for #COVID19 remain flat. Non-ICU hospitalizations still rising.
Read 9 tweets
4 Oct
Trivia: Which stadium hosted the most NFL games in the 20th Century?
A hint: the correct answer here is still an active stadium, but it no longer holds the record for most all-time NFL games.
The correct answer here, as some of you guessed: Wrigley Field!

The Bears only moved to Soldier Field in 1971; before that they played at Wrigley for *50 years*. The Chicago Cardinals also played there for 8 years in the 30s.
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4 Oct
Today’s #COVID19 data — really the tail end of last week, due to MDH’s reporting delays — is unsettling. Our positivity rate ticked up to 6.4%, the highest this wave to date (and in fact higher than we ever reached this spring, either). This measure had been flat until recently.
Testing volume is still going up — it’s just that the last few days of data have seen cases grow even more quickly.
Cases continue to be pretty flat in the Twin Cities metro; MN’s overall case growth is concentrated in central and western Minnesota.
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22 Sep
It’s been just over two weeks since most Minnesota kids returned to school, and the data has become quite clear: the school #COVID19 surge many people expected is here.
Minnesotans aged 10-19 are seeing the highest rates of new infections right now, which is unusual — over the whole outbreak, it’s been working-age adults who’ve tended to have the most cases.

Unclear how much of this is an artifact of expanded testing, though.
Minnesota does not break out its daily testing data by age. We know testing has drastically expanded in Minnesota in recent weeks, and more testing confirms a higher share of infections that were there whether we knew about it or not.
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