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Today’s update includes data from Saturday through Sunday, so totals may seem high compared to a single normal reporting day.
Tuesday’s COVID-19 update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 3,882 new cases and six newly reported deaths, all six of which occurred in August.
The death toll in the state is 7,811 since the start of the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 58.2% (4,544) were long-term care residents.
As of August 29, the state reported that 3,314,084 people had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 3,111,569 people had completed the series of vaccines. The percentage of the population of Minnesota who received at least one injection, by age group:
- 12-15: 50%
- 16-17: 57%
- 18-49: 62%
- 50-64: 74%
- 65+: 92%
- Total population: 60%
55.9% of the total population of Minnesota, including children under 12 who are not eligible for the vaccine, have completed the vaccine series. This rises to 66.2% excluding children under 12. MDH has a public dashboard for tracking vaccination progress in Minnesota, and you can view it here.
Hospitalizations
As of August 30, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 589 (up from 591 reported on Monday).
Among those hospitalized, 164 people are in intensive care and 425 in general hospital care. The spring surge saw a peak of 202 patients in intensive care and 517 people in general hospital care.
Here’s how many people are hospitalized by regions of Minnesota, although that doesn’t mean every patient has contracted the virus in those specific regions, as they may have been turned away depending on available beds.
- Metro: 86 ICU, 247 non-ICU
- Central: 27 ICU, 49 non-ICU
- Southeast: 26 ICU, 43 non-ICU
- Northeast: 13 ICU, 26 non-ICU
- Northwest: 8 ICU, 15 non-ICU
- Center-South: 3 ICUs, 27 non-ICUs
- Southwest: 1 ICU, 14 non-ICU
- West-central: 0 ICU, 4 non-ICU
Tests and positivity rate.
The 3,882 positive results in Tuesday’s update came from 65,029 completed tests, creating a test positivity rate of 5.97%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Minnesota’s test positivity rate over the past seven days is 4.88%, although that number is skewed and lower than it would otherwise be due to a dump of data from about 60,000 tests last week.
The World Health Organization recommends that a percent positive rate (total positives divided by total tests performed) of less than 5% for at least two weeks be necessary to keep the economy open and safe. This 5% cutoff is based on the total number of positives divided by the total number of tests.
The coronavirus in Minnesota in figures
- Total tests: 11,456,835 (compared to 11,391,772)
- People tested: 5,078,283 (compared to 5,041,034)
- People who have received at least 1 vaccine: 3,314,084 (compared to 3,305,165)
- People who have completed the series of vaccines: 3,111,569 (compared to 3,099,199)
- Positive cases: 649,964 (compared to 646,094)
- Deaths: 7,811 – 429 of which “probable *” (compared to 7,805)
- Patients no longer requiring isolation: 630,243 (compared to 625,274)
* Probable deaths are patients who died after testing positive using the COVID-19 antigen test, which is considered less accurate than the more common PCR test.
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