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The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Wednesday’s COVID-19 update includes 1,715 new cases and 16 new deaths.
New deaths increase the number of deaths in the state to 6,978 during the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 61.9% (4,320) were long-term care residents.
As of April 12, the state reported that 2,131,904 people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 1,460,806 people have completed their vaccine series.
Forty-eight percent of Minnesota people aged 16 and over have received at least one shot, while 84% of the population aged 65 and over have had at least one dose of vaccine. Overall, 38% of the state’s population has had at least one dose.
MDH has a public bulletin board to track the progress of vaccines in Minnesota and you can see it here.
Hospitalizations
As of April 13, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 681, which exceeds the 676 reported Tuesday.
Of those hospitalized, 164 people were in intensive care (up to 159 reported Tuesday) and 517 were receiving treatment that was not used in the ICU (no change from 517).
The following explains how Minnesota’s hospital admissions have progressed since March 1st.
- March 1: 251 (191 no UCI, 60 UCI)
- March 7: 223 (177 in the UCI, 46 in the UCI)
- March 13: 255 (194 in the ICU, 61 in the ICU)
- March 20: 324 (246 no UCI, 78 UCI)
- March 27: 356 (264 no UCI, 92 UCI)
- April 2: 439 (337 in UCI, 112 UCI)
- April 8: 595 (461 in UCI, 134 UCI)
- April 13: 681 (517 in UCI, 164 UCI)
Test rates and positivity
The 1,715 positive results of Wednesday’s update were 24,033 tests completed, creating a test positivity rate of 7.13%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the Minnesota test positivity rate over the past seven days is 7.32%.
The World Health Organization recommends that a percentage of positive percentages (divided by the total number of tests completed) below 5% be needed for at least two weeks to reopen the economy safely. This 5% threshold is based on the total positives divided by the total tests.
Coronavirus in Minnesota by the numbers
- Total tests: 8,665,530 (compared to 8,641,543)
- Tested people: 3,844,437 (to 3,835,496)
- People with at least 1 vaccine: 2,131,904 (compared to 2,102,859)
- People who have completed it. series of vaccines: 1,460,806 (compared to 1,435,236)
- Positive cases: 547,101 (to 545,404)
- Deaths: 6,978 – 385 of which are “probable *” (up to 6,962)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 522,843 (up to 520,800)
* Probable deaths are patients who died after testing positive for the COVID-19 antigen test, which is thought to be less accurate than the more common PCR test.