The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Friday’s COVID-19 update includes 2,050 new cases and 18 recently reported deaths. Thirteen of the 18 deaths occurred in September, and the other five occurred in March, April, May, June, and August.
The death toll in the state is 7,892 since the start of the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 57.8% (4,562) were residents of long-term care.
As of Sept. 7, the state reported that 3,348,641 people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 3,158,635 people have completed the vaccine series. The percentage of Minnesota’s population with at least one trait, by age group:
- 12-15: 52%
- 16-17: 59%
- 18-49: 62%
- 50-64: 74%
- 65 years or older: 92%
- Total population: 60%
56.8% of Minnesota’s total population, including those under the age of 12 who are not eligible for the vaccine, have completed the vaccine series. This jumps to 67.2% when children under 12 are excluded. MDH has a public bulletin board to track the progress of vaccines in Minnesota and you can see it here.
Hospitalizations
As of Sept. 9, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was 695 (up from 663 reported Thursday).
Of those hospitalized, 185 people are in intensive care and 510 in general hospital care. The spring increase recorded a maximum of 202 patients in intensive care and 517 people in general hospital care.
The number of people hospitalized according to the regional location is explained below, although this does not mean that each patient has contracted the virus in these specific regions, as they may have been diverted depending on the beds available.
- Metro: 103 UCI, 293 in the UCI
- Central: 29 UCI, 62 no UCI
- Southeast: 26 UCI, 62 no UCI
- Northeast: 11 UCI, 22 no UCI
- Northwest: 5 UCI, 13 no UCI
- South center: 7 UCI, 37 in the UCI
- Southwest: 2 UCI, 13 no UCI
- Midwest: 2 ICUs, 8 in the ICU
Test rates and positivity.
The 2,050 positive results of Friday’s update came from 40,472 completed tests, which created a test positivity rate of 5.06%.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the Minnesota test positivity rate over the past seven days is 7.41%.
The World Health Organization recommends that a positive percentage rate (positive dividends divided by the total number of tests completed) of less than 5% be required for at least two weeks to keep the economy open safely.
Coronavirus in Minnesota by the numbers
- Total tests: 11,756,998 (compared to 11,716,045)
- Tested people: 5,235,451 (to 5,215,994)
- People with at least 1 vaccine: 3,348,641 (to 3,344,415)
- People who have completed the vaccine series: 3,158,635 (to 3,152,889)
- Positive cases: 666,496 (to 664,459)
- Deaths: 7,892 – 434 of which are “probable *” (up to 7,874)
- Patients who no longer need isolation: 644,355 (to 643,425)
* 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.