COVID-19 Update 9 June 2021

COVID-19 Update 9 June 2021

There were no new cases in the entire Rockingham County since yesterday! (So, no new cases in Salem!)
Salem’s active cases stayed at 1-4 active cases, while NH’s active cases went up slightly.
NO communities have a positivity rate of more than 10%!!! Although a few towns/cities are more than 5%, the only county that has a higher positivity rate than 5% is Coos County at 5.5%.
There were TEN new hospitalizations reported today, including four people aged 40-49, and four people aged 50-59. This makes FORTY-THREE new people who have been hospitalized in the last 7 days.
No deaths were reported since yesterday’s update.

SALEM:

Total: 2,964 confirmed cases in Salem
Salem today: 1 new case
Salem still 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.”
Salem’s new cases account for 3.6% of all of today’s cases. (Salem has 2.2% of NH’s population.)

On Wednesday, June 9, 2021, DHHS announced 57 new positive test results for COVID-19. Today’s results include 20 people who tested positive by PCR test and 37 who tested positive by antigen test. There are now 328 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 has added 0 new cases since yesterday, leaving our total at 2,964 Salem residents who have had confirmed case of COVID-19.
Salem’s active cases remains at somewhere between 1 and 4 total cases since Wednesday, June 2. We are back to where we were from Sep 22 to September 30, before things skyrocketed.
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.” It has been this low since Tuesday, June 1.
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.” It has been this low since Tuesday, June 1. Salem’s positivity rate was up to 14.3% on Dec. 14.
There are 17 NH communities with a positivity rate of more than 0. (23 a week ago). There are 14 communities with a positivity rate higher than 2%. (18 a week ago). 6 communities have more than 5% (6 a week ago). NO communities have a positivity rate of more than 10%!!! (2 a week ago.)
Today the new cases “by math” (yesterday vs. today’s cumulative total of positive cases as reported by DHHS) was 52..NH reported 46 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 up by 6 since yesterday’s report to 328..That’s 95 fewer active cases than we had a week ago. NH has added 242 new cases in the past week.
NH has had 53.6 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 1.6%. One week ago, it was 5.3%.
DHHS is reporting a total of 1,529 people who have been hospitalized as of today because of COVID-19. This is anincrease of 10 people since yesterday’s update, and an increase of 43 since last week. There were 3 hospitalizations reported from Rockingham County since yesterday; our county’s total hospitalization count is 335.
The number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 is 29 which is 1 more than yesterday and 3 more than we had one week ago.
The cumulative total of ICU admissions increased by 1 since yesterday; the total number of ICU admissions is 443. We have seen an increase of 11 ICU admissions in the past seven days.
Since yesterday’s report, no lives have been lost due to COVID-19, leaving the total at 1,357 people who have died in NH due to COVID-19. We have lost 3 people in NH due to COVID-19 in the past week. There have been 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:
Sullivan (15), Strafford (13), Belknap (7), Merrimack (5), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (3), Cheshire (2), Carroll (1), and Grafton (1) counties, and in the cities of Manchester (5) and Nashua (3). The county of residence is being determined for two new cases.

There were no new cases in Coos County, for the second day in a row, and there were none in Rockingham County today, either!

There are no counties that are down to no active cases, although Coos County has just 9 active cases, and Belknap, Carroll and Cheshire counties are in their teens. Hillsborough has the most, at 95 (+5) active cases, with 36 (+2) in Nashua, 30 (+3) in Manchester, and 29 in the rest of the County. Strafford is next with 50. Rockingham County is third, with just 42 (-5) active cases in our County.

There are only 17 communities with 5 or more active cases, and 7 communities with double digit active cases, from 36 down to 11, from most to least: Nashua, Manchester, Claremont, Rochester, Dover, Laconia and Concord. 10 communities have from 5-9 active cases (alphabetical):

Barrington, Berlin, Conway, Farmington, Hooksett, Hudson, Keene, Londonderry, Merrimack and Unity.

12 communities have more than 2,000 total cases (in order): Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Salem, Derry, Dover, Hudson, Durham, Londonderry, Rochester. Bedford and Merrimack. Only the first three have more than 3,000.

Ratios of NH communities with more than 10,000 residents: Durham is 1 out of 7 residents have been infected. Manchester is 1:9. Four communities have 1 out of 10: Pelham, Salem, Windham and Hudson.

Ratios of NH communities with less than 10,000 residents: Waterville Valley, with a population of 248 permanent residents, has had 46 people diagnosed with COVID-19. (1:5). Plymouth and Stewarstown are both at 1:8. Tilton and Plaistow are 1:10.

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

New positive cases by my math (Total of today’s cases minus Sunday’s total): 52
New positive cases per DHHS: 57
Total people who have tested positive: 98,996

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

Total cases in Rockingham County: 24,297
New cases in Rockingham County: 0
Rockingham County’s percentage of new cases: 0.0%
Rockingham County Positivity Rate: 1.3%

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

12 children under 18 are included in today’s new cases.
21.1% of new cases announced by DHHS today are kids under 18 years old.

(Totals showing changes since yesterday.)

0-9: 6% of Total cases: 5557 (+9); Hospitalizations: 10; Deaths: 0
10-19: 12% of Total cases: 12366 (+3); Hospitalizations: 11; Deaths: 0
20-29: 20% of Total cases: 19882 (+7); Hospitalizations: 32; Deaths: 1
30-39: 15% of Total cases: 14550 (+9); Hospitalizations: 65; Deaths: 7
40-49: 13% of Total cases: 13004 (+6); Hospitalizations: 112 (+4); Deaths: 12
50-59: 15% of Total cases: 15120 (+4); Hospitalizations: 210 (+4); Deaths: 34
60-69: 10% of Total cases: 9704 (+3); Hospitalizations: 363; Deaths: 137
70-79: 5% of Total cases: 4787 (+6); Hospitalizations: 377; Deaths: 324
80+: 4% of Total cases: 3937 (+5); Hospitalizations: 339 (+2); Deaths: 842
Unknown: 0% of Total cases: 89 (+0); Hospitalizations: 0; Deaths: 0

• • • • • • ACTIVE CASES • • • • • •

Active cases in NH: 328
Active cases in Rockingham County: 42

• • • • • • RECOVERED • • • • • •

Recovered today: 46
Total recovered: 97,311
Percentage of diagnosed cases that have recovered: 98.3%

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

Currently hospitalized: 29
New people hospitalized from NH: 0
Total hospitalized patients: 1,519
Percentage of those who have been infected that have been hospitalized: 1.53%
Total admitted to ICU: 443
New hospitalized patients from Rockingham County: 3
Total hospitalized patients from Rockingham County: 325

• • • • • • 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: 1,357
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!

You might want to read this article, which says “The Highly Contagious Delta Variant of COVID That Ravaged India s Spreading in the U.S. … The highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 that spread rapidly in India … has been found in more than 6% of cases in the U.S., and may be the cause of more than 18% in some parts of the country.

And, “the variant may be “associated with increased disease severity” and a higher risk of hospitalization from COVID-19, but that the vaccines have been effective against it.”

This gives us further reason to stay safe, and always, be kind.

~Bonnie