Mayo Clinic
Sunday’s coronavirus update from the Minnesota Department of Health is a combination of results collected Dec. 25-26 and reveals another 40 deaths and more than 2,500 additional laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19.
There have now been 5,147 deaths caused by the virus during the pandemic, of which 64.7% (3,332) came from long-term care, including 27 of the 40 reported on Sunday.
The good news is that the test’s success rate continues to fall, with Minnesota dropping to just over 20,000 active cases, well below the peak of more than 50,000 active cases in mid-November.
hospitalization
Hospitalization figures are not updated over the weekend.
As of December 23, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota is 1,048. This is down from the 1,060 hospitalized since Tuesday.
Of those hospitalized, 238 were in intensive care and 810 received non-ICU treatment.
Test rates and positivity
The 2,534 positive results in Sunday’s update come from a total of 87,990 completed tests, creating a daily test positivity rate of 2.88%, which is a step in the right direction in terms of how widespread it can be. be the virus in Minnesota.
The World Health Organization recommended in May that a positive percentage rate (total positive divided by total completed tests) of less than 5% is needed for at least two weeks to safely reopen the economy. That 5% threshold is based on the total positives divided by the total tests.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the test positive rate in Minnesota over the past seven days is 5.18%. There are only four states in the US below a 5% test positive rate over an average of 7 days, and Minnesota could soon become the fifth if the current trend continues.
Coronavirus in Minnesota by numbers
- Total tests: 5,480,439 (out of 5,392,411)
- Tested persons: 2,947,634 (increasing from 2,918,243)
- Positive cases: 409,061 (of the 406,545)
- deaths: 5,107 – 154 of which are “probable *” (increasing from 5,107)
- Active cases: 20,142 (decreasing from 23,840)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 388,919 (of the 382,705)
* Probable deaths are patients who died after a positive test using the COVID-19 antigen test, which is thought to be less accurate than the more common PCR test.