COVID-19 Update 2 June 2021

COVID-19 Update 2 June 2021

Total: 2,962 confirmed cases in Salem
Salem today: 0 new cases since Saturday, May 29
Salem has Less than 5 active cases!!!
1 out of every 10 Salem residents has been infected
Salem’s new cases per 100K for 14 days: Rate not calculated. DHHS says “Rate Not Calculated: For towns with cumulative cases between 1-4 in the last 14 days, data limited to protect the privacy of individuals.”
Salem’s Positivity Rate for the past 2 weeks: Data suppressed. DHHS says, “Data Suppressed: This metric is not currently available at the town level.”

On Wednesday, June 2, 2021, DHHS announced 48 new positive test results for COVID-19. Today’s results include 21 people who tested positive by PCR test and 27 who tested positive by antigen test. There are now 425 current COVID-19 cases diagnosed in New Hampshire.

Several cases are still under investigation. Additional information from ongoing investigations will be incorporated into future COVID-19 updates.

• • • • • • TODAY’S SUMMARY • • • • • •

Salem added 0 new cases since Saturday, May 29, leaving our total at 2,962 Salem residents who have had confirmed case of COVID-19.
Salem’s active cases decreased by at least 2 since yesterday, bringing the total to somewhere between 1 and 4 total cases. Salem had 9 active cases one week ago. We had 1-4 cases on most days from Sep 22 to September 30.
Salem’s new cases per 100K residents is too low to report. DHHS says “Rate Not Calculated: For towns with cumulative cases between 1-4 in the last 14 days, data limited to protect the privacy of individuals.” One week ago, it was 107.
Salem’s positivity rate for PCR & antigen results in the past week is too low to report. DHHS says, “Data Suppressed: This metric is not currently available at the town level.” One week ago, it was 4.1%. Salem’s positivity rate was 14.3% on Dec. 14.
There are 21 NH communities with a positivity rate of more than 0. (35 a week ago). There are 17 communities with a positivity rate higher than 2%. (31 a week ago). 6 communities have more than 5% (10 a week ago). 2 communities have a positivity rate of more than 10%. (3 a week ago.) 21 communities have a higher positivity rate than Salem’s. (16 a week ago; it was as high as 10 on March 28.)
Today the new cases “by math” (yesterday vs. today’s cumulative total of positive cases as reported by DHHS) was 24. NH reported 98 people have “recovered” since yesterday’s update. After allowing for those who lost their lives because of COVID-19, NH’s number of active cases went down by 74 since yesterday’s report to 425. That’s 69 more active cases than we had a week ago. NH has added 321 new cases in the past week. We had this many active cases in early October. NH was down to 209 on September 4.
NH has had 77.4 new cases per 100K residents in the past 14 days. One week ago, it was 438.6.
NH’s positivity rate for PCR & antigen results in the past week is 1.8%. One week ago, it was 5.3%.
DHHS is reporting a total of 1,461 people who have been hospitalized as of today because of COVID-19. This is anincrease of 5 people since yesterday’s update, and an increase of 15 since last week. There was 1 hospitalization reported from Rockingham County since yesterday; our county’s total hospitalization count is 322.
The number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 is 25 which is 1 less than yesterday and 24 less than we had one week ago.
The cumulative total of ICU admissions increased by 1 since yesterday; the total number of ICU admissions is 429. We have seen an increase of 3 ICU admissions in the past seven days.
Since Sunday, May 30, no lives have been lost due to COVID-19, leaving the total of lives lost to 1,353 people who have died in NH due to COVID-19. We have lost 4 people in NH due to COVID-19 in the past week. There were no lives lost in Rockingham County since Wednesday, May 26; the total number of people who have died from our county is 262.

• • • • • Communities • • • • • •

DHHS reports that the new cases reside in the following counties:
Grafton (9), Belknap (7), Rockingham (5), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (4), Strafford (4), Carroll (3), Coos (3), Sullivan (3), Merrimack (2), and Cheshire (1) counties, and in the cities of Nashua (4) and Manchester (1). The county of residence is being determined for two new cases.

• • • • • • DIAGNOSTIC TESTS IN NH • • • • • •

New positive cases by my math (Total of today’s cases minus Sunday’s total): 24
New positive cases per DHHS: 48
Total people who have tested positive: 98,791

• • • • • • ROCKINGHAM COUNTY (22.78% of NH’s population) • • • • • •

Total cases in Rockingham County: 24,263
New cases in Rockingham County: 5
Rockingham County’s percentage of new cases: 10.4%
Rockingham County Positivity Rate: 1.8%

• • • • • • CHANGES BY AGES • • • • • •

15 children under 18 are included in today’s new cases.
31.3% of new cases announced by DHHS today are kids under 18 years old.

(Totals showing changes since yesterday.)

0-9: % of Total cases: 5529 (+8); Hospitalizations: 10; Deaths: 0
10-19: % of Total cases: 12343 (+0); Hospitalizations: 11 (+1); Deaths: 0
20-29: % of Total cases: 19855 (+1); Hospitalizations: 32; Deaths: 1
30-39: % of Total cases: 14510 (+5); Hospitalizations: 64; Deaths: 7
40-49: % of Total cases: 12977 (+4); Hospitalizations: 105; Deaths: 12
50-59: % of Total cases: 15107 (+0); Hospitalizations: 194 (+1); Deaths: 34
60-69: % of Total cases: 9685 (+4); Hospitalizations: 351 (+1); Deaths: 136
70-79: % of Total cases: 4769 (+1); Hospitalizations: 367 (+1); Deaths: 322
80+: % of Total cases: 3927 (+0); Hospitalizations: 327 (+1); Deaths: 841
Unknown: % of Total cases: 89 (+1); Hospitalizations: 0; Deaths: 0

• • • • • • ACTIVE CASES • • • • • •

Active cases in NH: 425
Active cases in Rockingham County: 57

• • • • • • RECOVERED • • • • • •

Recovered today: 98
Total recovered: 97,013
Percentage of diagnosed cases that have recovered: 98.2%

• • • • • • HOSPITALIZATIONS IN NH • • • • • •

Currently hospitalized: 25
New people hospitalized from NH: 5
Total hospitalized patients: 1,461
Percentage of those who have been infected that have been hospitalized: 1.48%
Total admitted to ICU: 429
New hospitalized patients from Rockingham County: 1
Total hospitalized patients from Rockingham County: 322

• • • • • • DEATHS IN NH • • • • • •

Lives lost today: 0
Persons over 60 years of age who died today: 0
Persons under 60 years of age who died today: 0
Total fatalities in NH associated with COVID-19: 1,353
NH Residents diagnosed with COVID-19 that died: 1.37%
Lives lost in Rockingham County today: 0
Total lives lost in Rockingham County: 262

These are not simply numbers. We must not forget that these are all someone’s husband or wife, mother or father, sister or brother, son or daughter, friend or neighbor.

Hello, Salem!

We are getting there, Salem! We now have the same number of active cases that we had in late September.

However, NH has 425 active cases, more than double what we had on September 4. The number of COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized has been falling to the current 25 patients, but we were as low as 6 on Sept 12. The number of people being admitted continues to grow.

This beast isn’t over yet. It’s close … but it’s not time to celebrate quite yet. While we work to get to the point where we can celebrate, please stay safe, and always, be kind.

~Bonnie