COVID-19 Update December 21

COVID-19 Update December 21

Total: 1,251 confirmed cases in Salem
Salem’s Positivity Rate for the past 2 weeks: 13.7%
1 out of 24 Salem residents have been infected
Salem today: 40 new cases since yesterday; 219 active cases

• • • • • • Report from NH Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS) • • • • • •

From today’s Press Release from NH DHHS: “On Monday, December 21, 2020, DHHS announced 847 new positive test results for COVID-19, with a daily PCR test positivity rate of 7.3%. Today’s results include 575 people who tested positive by PCR test and 272 who tested positive by antigen test. There are now 6,688 current COVID-19 cases diagnosed in New Hampshire. Of the results reported today:

12/16: 118 new cases today, for an updated total of 801 cases
12/17: 70 new cases today, for an updated total of 747 cases
12/18: 85 new cases today, for an updated total of 534 cases
12/19: 136 new cases today, for an updated total of 619 cases
12/20: 438 new cases

Test results for previous days are still being processed and the total number of new positives for those days are not yet complete. Updated case counts for prior days will be reflected on the COVID-19 interactive dashboard.”

• • • • • • Community Transmission • • • • • •

Community Transmission (per NH Department of Health and Human Services): The overall level of community transmission is defined using three metrics. A community is then assigned an overall level based on the highest-level determination for any specific metric. NH Metrics are: New Cases per 100k over 14 days: Scale: Minimal: <50; Moderate: 50 – 100; Substantial: >100. New Hospitalizations per 100k over 14 days: Scale: Minimal: <10; Moderate: 10 – 20; Substantial: >20. Average PCR Test Positivity Rate over 7 days: Scale: Minimal: <5%; Moderate: 5% – 10%; Substantial: >10%

Average of New Cases per 100K people over 14 days:
- New Hampshire: 784.7
- Rockingham County: 866.2
- Salem: 1,189
- All 10 counties and our two biggest cities are all at the substantial level ranging from 178.5 (Sullivan County) to 1,109.4 (Manchester).
Average of New Hospitalization per 100K people over 14 days:
- New Hampshire: 1.7
- Rockingham County: 1.2
- Nashua: 8.1
Average Positivity Rate over 7 days:
- New Hampshire: 9.1%
- Rockingham County: 10.9%
- Salem: 13.7%
- Manchester: 11.8%
- Nashua: 10.9%
- 24 communities have a positivity rate higher than Salem.
- 57 communities have a positivity rate of more than 10%.
- 114 communities have a positivity rate of more than 5%.
- 123 communities have a positivity rate of more than 2%.

• • • • • • TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT • • • • • •

Salem had another 40 people who had a positive diagnoses in the 24-hours covered by this report. This is the second highest single-day number.
Salem has had 390 residents who have been infected in the past two weeks. It took us 239 days to reach our first 390 cases. That was October 26. We have more than tripled the number of cases in less than two months.
Today Hillsborough County passed 15,000 confirmed cases. Rockingham County reached 8,000 on Tuesday and passed 9,000 cases on Tuesday. The third hottest county, Merrimack, passed 4,000 cases today.
1,066 people were reported as “recovered” today. That is the most in one day. It appears that 50 of those were from Salem, as we have 10 fewer active cases today than we had yesterday.
The positivity rate for today’s new cases in NH is 7.3%, the second highest ever.
NH DHHS reports that no new people were hospitalized during the 24-hour period covered by this report. However the number of people currently hospitalized has increased by 17 since yesterday.
Happily, no one died in the 24-hour period covered by this report. This is only the third day this month with no loss of life associated with COVID-19.

• • • • • • Communities • • • • • •

NH DHHS says that the new cases reside in Rockingham (224), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (144), Merrimack (81), Strafford (61), Belknap (56), Cheshire (26), Grafton (20), Carroll (13), Coos (12), and Sullivan (3) counties, and in the cities of Nashua (100) and Manchester (80). The county of residence is being determined for twenty-seven new cases.
Active cases:
- An additional 1,066 people were reported as “recovered” today; these are reflected in today’s changes.
- Two communities — Gilford and Laconia — added enough new cases to bring them to 50 or more active cases.
- One community — Raymond — dropped by enough cases to bring them under 50 active cases.
- There are 27 NH communities with more than 50 active cases. Between them, these communities have 4,172 active cases, accounting for 62% of all active cases.
- Manchester, Nashua, and Concord are the only communities with more active cases than Salem.
- Communities with more than 50 active cases, showing changes in active cases since yesterday: Manchester: 789 (-42). Nashua: 524 (+10). Concord: 362 (-30). Salem: 219 (-10). Hudson: 191 (+11). Derry: 181 (-2). Dover: 161 (-16). Windham: 141 (+1). Londonderry: 132 (-15). Rochester: 126 (+3). Merrimack: 111 (-11). Durham: 110 (-6). Pelham: 107 (+9). Hooksett: 98 (+0). Laconia: 93 (-3). Bedford: 89 (-4). Goffstown: 87 (-8). Keene: 82 (-2). Milford: 77 (-6). Hampton: 77 (-5). Portsmouth: 72 (-18). Newmarket: 72 (-5). Berlin: 60 (+1). Gilford: 56 (+10). Belmont: 54 (-4). Farmington: 51 (-4). Meredith: 50 (+4).
- Other communities with an increase or decrease by five or more people: Deering: (-5). Exeter: 43 (+6). Greenfield: (-5). Greenville: (-5). Hampstead: 37 (-6). Hill: (-7). Hillsborough: 14 (-5). Holderness: 6 (+6). Milan: 5 (+5). Milton: 23 (+7). Newbury: 6 (+6). Newfields: 7 (+7). Newton: 23 (-5). North Hampton: 13 (-5). Northwood: 28 (-7). Peterborough: 21 (-7). Sandown: 27 (-6). Seabrook: 48 (+8). Tilton: 23 (-5). Tuftonboro: (-5).
Cumulative Cases
- There are now 105 communities that have had 50 or more cases.
- One community — Bristol — now has 50 or more total cases.
- 36 communities have 5 or more new cases than they had yesterday.
- Only Manchester, Nashua, and Concord have had more total cases than Salem.
- The ten communities with the highest number of cumulative cases, showing changes from yesterday: Manchester: 5948 (+80). Nashua: 3398 (+100). Concord: 1361 (+19). Salem: 1251 (+40).Derry: 1234 (+37). Bedford: 946 (+15). Londonderry: 889 (+16). Hudson: 885 (+42). Dover: 736 (+11). Merrimack: 727 (+13).
- Other communities with 5 or more new cases, showing changes from yesterday: Alton: 127 (+5). Barrington: 169 (+10). Berlin: 163 (+6). Bow: 188 (+5). Brookline: 97 (+7). Epping: 198 (+7). Exeter: 296 (+11). Gilford: 161 (+13). Goffstown: 702 (+7). Hampton: 513 (+5). Hooksett: 575 (+13). Keene: 400 (+13). Kingston: 151 (+7). Laconia: 371 (+13). Litchfield: 255 (+7). Meredith: 200 (+8). Milford: 455 (+8). Milton: 75 (+7). Newmarket: 202 (+6). Northfield: 95 (+6). Pelham: 490 (+16). Plaistow: 303 (+7). Rochester: 611 (+19). Seabrook: 291 (+12). Weare: 229 (+5). Windham: 611 (+22).

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

New positive cases by my math (Total of today’s cases minus previous total): 846
New positive cases per DHHS: 847
- 575 PCR tests
- 223 Antigen tests
Children under 18 in new cases: 109
Total positive cases in NH: 37,388
Percentage of today’s tests that are positive per DHHS: 7.3%
Total PCR test results reported today (Positive results plus negative results): 2,067
The daily average of diagnostic (PCR) tests reported from 7 days ago to today: 2,284
New negative results reported today: 1,221
Total negative cases in NH: 449,635

• • • • • • ROCKINGHAM COUNTY • • • • • •

Total cases in Rockingham County: 9,277
New cases in Rockingham County: 224
Rockingham County: New cases per 100K residents: 72.3
Rockingham County 1-week average per 100K residents: 63.0
Rockingham County Positivity Rate: 10.9%
Percent of all cases from Rockingham County: 24.8%
Percent of all cases from either Hillsborough County or Rockingham County: 66%

• • • • • • ACTIVE CASES • • • • • •

Active cases in NH: 6,688
Active cases in Rockingham County: 1,580
Percent of NH’s active cases that are in Rockingham County: 23.6%

• • • • • • OTHER TEST RESULTS • • • • • •

New antibody tests: 31
Total antibody tests (No break downs of positive vs. negative): 34,323
The daily average of antibody tests reported from 7 days ago to today: 48

• • • • • • CHANGES BY AGES • • • • • •
(Shown: Total infections, percentage of all infections, and increase since yesterday.)

0-9: 1530 = 4% (+51).
10-19: 3674 = 10% (+88).
20-29: 7217 = 19% (+143).
30-39: 5572 = 15% (+123).
40-49: 4997 = 13% (+99).
50-59: 5983 = 16% (+129).
60-69: 4088 = 11% (+112).
70-79: 2147 = 6% (+63).
80+: 2142 = 6% (+38).
Unknown: 38 = 0% (+0).

• • • • • • RECOVERED IN NH • • • • • •

Announced today: 1,066
Total Recovered: 30,044
Percentage of diagnosed cases that have recovered: 80.4%

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

New people hospitalized from NH: 0
Currently hospitalized: 278
Total hospitalized patients: 889
Percentage of those who have been infected that have been hospitalized: 2.38%
Total admitted to ICU: 297
New hospitalized patients from Rockingham County: 0
Total hospitalized patients from Rockingham County: 208

• • • • • • 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: 656
NH Residents diagnosed with COVID-19 that died: 1.75%
Lives lost in Rockingham County today: 0
Total lives lost in Rockingham County: 125

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.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
~ Thomas Fuller

Hello, Salem!

If you think you MIGHT have COVID-19, then please, stay home until you can get tested!

One of the things that people message me about fairly often is how to get tested for COVID-19. I hope you don’t need this info, but here it is:

In Salem, you can get tested at three locations. PCR Testing can be done at:

Convenient MD, Windham/Salem (833-263-0131),
ExpressMED/BOAC (603-898-0961, and
CVS, Salem (5 Hampstead Road)

Antigen tests are less reliable than PCR tests, but give results sooner. Antigen tests are available at Convenient MD, Windham/Salem (833-263-0131, and ExpressMED/BOAC, Salem (603-898-0961).

There are other options as well, which can be found here:

Stay positive, stay safe, and always, be kind.

~Bonnie

Compiled by Bonnie Wright, based on data obtained from NH DHHS.

This video was posted almost two months ago. Things have changed in that time. On October 2, US deaths were 1,035,451, according to the video. (My records say 1,033,174 per WorldOmeter.) WorldOMeter now says the global death rate is 1,446,889, an increase of 413,715 in less than two months. Just please remember that there is a lot more between COVID->Death vs. COVID->Recovery. More and more, long-haulers are making the news, as are other consequences of COVID-19.

From the beginning of the pandemic, it took 43 days before NH reached it’s first 1,000 confirmed diagnoses. It took 31 days to go from 10,000 to 18,000. In another 5 days, we added another 2,000.