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COVID-19 Update November 1

COVID-19 Update November 1

  • Total: 414 confirmed cases in Salem
  • 1 out of 71 Salem residents have been infected
  • Salem Today: 4 new cases, 44 active cases 

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. The metric which is changing the most right now is the number of new cases.

  • NH Community Transmission Metrics:
    • New Cases per 100k over 14 days: 
      • Scale: Minimal: <50; Moderate: 50 – 100; Substantial: >100. 
      • Daily average: 113.9 (SUBSTANTIAL)
    • New hospitalizations per 100k over 14 days:
      • Scale: Minimal: <10; Moderate: 10 – 20; Substantial: >20, 
      • Daily average: 1.2%
    • Average PCR Test Positivity Rate over 7 days:
      • Scale: Minimal: <5%; Moderate: 5% – 10%; Substantial: >10%
      • Daily average: 1.7%
    • New Hampshire’s Level of Transmission: SUBSTANTIAL
  • Rockingham County Transmission:
    • New Cases per 100k over 14 days: 129.7
    • New hospitalizations per 100k over 14 days: 1.3
    • Average PCR Test Positivity Rate over 7 days: 2.7
    • Rockingham County’s Level of Transmission: Substantial
  • Other NH Locations, with changes from yesterday
    • Manchester: (142.4 new case average; 4.5 hospitalizations; 2.1% positivity). Substantial
    • Nashua: (120.9 new case average; 4.5 hospitalizations; 1.8% positivity). Substantial
    • Hillsborough County excluding Manchester and Nashua (109.7 new case average). Substantial
    • Merrimack: (125.1 new case average): Substantial
    • Belknap County (93.4 new case average): Moderate
    • Strafford County (106.8 new case average): Substantial
    • Coos County (202.6 new case average): Substantial
    • Grafton County (83.5 new case average): Moderate
    • Carroll County (53.3 new case average): Moderate
    • Sullivan County (57.9 new case average): Moderate
    • Cheshire County (44.4 new case average): Minimal
  • Changes to New Cases per 100K for NH, all counties, and our two largest cities:
    • Manchester has gone down again, as did Nashua and Belknap and Cheshire Counties.
    • There was no change in this metric for the rest of Hillsborough County.
    • The remaining counties in the State went up. 
    • A substantial increase was again seen in Coos County, which went up by another 37.9. They have gone from 50.7 to 202.6 in seven days. Stafford and Grafton counties also went up by double digit numbers.
    • Strafford County is now at a Substantial level of transmission, and Carroll has moved up to a Moderate level.

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

  • With 133 new cases today per NHDHHS, this was a much better day for NH than yesterdays’ 200+. That’s the good news. The not so great news is that the average for the past week is 132.14, statistically the same as today’s count, and, traditionally, Sunday often has the lowest numbers of the week.
  • Four more Salem residents was diagnosed with COVID-19 today. The daily average for both the past week and the past two weeks is 3.6.
  • Salem now has 44 people who are considered to be infectious.
  • We now have approximately 4,450 persons being monitored in NH. 
  • Another person was hospitalized today with COVID-19. 
  • It appears that one person was moved into the ICU, based on the Case Summary Dashboard. 
  • No person has died in the 24-hour period covered by this report. 
  • Communities:
    • Notable changes in active cases from yesterday to today:
      • 116 people were reported as “recovered;” these are reflected in today’s changes. Five of these communities has fewer active cases than yesterday. 
      • We have 19 communities with more than 20 active cases. Between them, these 19 communities have 787 active cases, accounting for 58% of all active cases. (Shown: # of active cases and change from yesterday).
      • Berlin: 22 (+22). Derry: 40 (+8). Dover: 33 (+7). Rochester: 23 (+3). Durham: 34 (+3). Merrimack: 25 (+3). Portsmouth: 30 (+2). Bedford: 48 (+2). Windham: 37 (+2). Colebrook: 24 (+1). Plymouth: 33 (+1). Warner: 44 (+1). Hudson: 40 (+1). Salem: 44 (+1). Milford: 20 (-1). Londonderry: 29 (-2). Concord: 57 (-3). Nashua: 75 (-11). Manchester: 129 (-15). 
      • Berlin now has more than 20 active cases; Goffstown fell down to less than 20 people with an active infection.
      • For the longest time, the COVID-19 activity was from Concord East and from Concord South. Now we are seeing more activity in the Northern part of our state.
    • Some of the communities with significant changes in cumulative cases:
      • Derry (+9). Dover (+9). Plymouth (+6). Durham (+5). Portsmouth (+5). Concord (+4). Hudson (+4). Merrimack (+4). Salem (+4). 
      • Epping, Pembroke and Plymouth have had more than 50 cases.

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

  • New positive cases by my math (Total of today’s cases minus yesterday’s total): 130
  • New positive cases per DHHS: 133
  • 105 PCR tests
  • 28 Antigen tests
  • Children under 18 in new cases: 21
  • Total positive cases in NH: 11,214
  • Percentage of today’s tests that are positive per DHHS: 1.4%
  • Total PCR test results reported today (Positive results plus negative results: 2,050
  • The daily average of diagnostic (PCR) tests reported from 7 days ago to today: 2,003
  • New negative results reported today: 1,920
  • Total negative cases in NH: 335,921

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

  • Total cases in Rockingham County: 2,766
  • New cases in Rockingham County: 40
  • Rockingham County: New cases per 100K residents: 12.9
  • Rockingham County 1-week average per 100K residents: 11.0
  • Rockingham County Positivity Rate: 2.7%
  • Percent of all cases from Rockingham County: 24.7%
  • Percent of all cases from either Hillsborough County or Rockingham County: 75%

• • • • • • ACTIVE CASES • • • • • •

  • Active cases in NH: 1,352
  • Active cases in Rockingham County: 349
  • Percent of NH’s active cases that are in Rockingham County: 25.8%. 

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

  • New antibody tests: 36
  • Total antibody tests (No break downs of positive vs. negative): 32,206
  • The daily average of antibody tests reported from 7 days ago to today: 30

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

  • 0-9: +9 (3% of all cases. 7% of new cases)
  • 10-19: +17 (9% of all; 13% today) 
  • 20-29: +26 (18% of all; 20% today) 
  • 30-39: +24 (14% of all; +18% today)
  • 40-49: +18 (13% of all; 14% today)
  • 50-59: +16 (15% of all; 12% today)
  • 60-69: +12 (11% of all (was 12%); 9% of today’s new cases) 
  • 70-79: +5 (7% of all; 4% today) 
  • 80+: +2 (9% of all (was 10%); 2% today) 
  • Unknown: 1 (0% of all; 1% today)

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

  • Announced today: 116
  • Total Recovered: 9,379
  • Percentage of diagnosed cases that have recovered: 83.6%

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

  • New: 1
  • Current: 38
  • Total Hospitalized: 780
  • Percentage of those who have been infected that have been hospitalized: 6.96%

• • • • • • 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: 483
  • NH Residents diagnosed with COVID-19 that died: 4.31%
  • Lives lost in Rockingham today: 0

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.

“Some days are just hard, but there is hope in tomorrow.”

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Hello, Salem!

I hope you had a great weekend. Mine was decent until this evening. I had multiple issues trying to get the State’s webpages loaded. I thought it was the State’s website, but then, when I went to do some calculations, my spreadsheet was not cooperating, either. So, it might be my computer. Either way, I’m frustrated! So much for getting some extra sleep tonight. Ah, well. Tomorrow is another day. I will make tomorrow a good day! I hope you can do that, too, even if it is a Monday.

Stay safe, and always, be kind.

~Bonnie

This screenshot comes from https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm?s_cid=mm6942e2_w

This report is explained here:
https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/2020/10/20/cdc-from-january-to-october-us-had-299k-more-deaths-than-in-previous-years/

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