BOSTON – Public health authorities confirmed 812 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the lowest single-day total since early last November.
The 812 new cases announced Monday by the Department of Public Health brought the state’s total to 641,211 infections since last February. But the day’s total is the lowest since Nov. 2, when DPH reported 725 new infections.
Monday’s newly-announced cases came from 42,169 COVID-19 tests, a single-day positive test rate of 1.92 percent. DPH also reported Monday that the seven-day average of the state’s positive test rate dipped slightly from 1.79 percent as of Sunday’s report to 1.72 percent as of Monday’s update.
DPH announced 12 recent COVID-19 deaths Monday, raising the death toll to 17,562 people when counting about 350 people who died with likely, but not test-confirmed, cases of COVID-19.
As of Sunday, there were 625 people hospitalized with COVID-19, according to DPH. That represents a net decrease of 16 patients from Saturday. There were 154 patients being cared for in intensive care units, including 97 people who are breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.
DPH also reported Monday that the number of people in Massachusetts reported to be fully vaccinated increased to 2,350,027 people. Gov. Charlie Baker, who is due this week to get the second shot of the Pfizer vaccine, said Monday that “we don’t have a lot of hesitancy” around getting the vaccine in Massachusetts.
Health experts are also grappling with a rising rate of Americans who declined to receive their second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, but Massachusetts so far has bucked that trend, according to Gov. Charlie Baker.
Citing data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, The New York Times reported Sunday that more than 5 million people in the United States missed their second doses for Moderna or Pfizer, representing almost 8 percent of those who received a first shot.
Baker cited that story during a Monday press conference while touting that in Massachusetts, “we don’t have a lot of hesitancy” about the vaccine. “There were a couple of stories about people in other parts of the country not getting their second vaccine after they get the first,” Baker said. “Here in Massachusetts, we’re north of 99 percent of the population (that) gets their second vaccine. Part of that is because we do everything we can to encourage providers to book that second appointment while people are still there having their waiting period after their first one.”
Asked what might be driving higher interest in the vaccine in New England, Baker said the pandemic’s early impacts on the Northeast might have played a role.
“We got hit really hard, and I think for a lot of folks in the Northeast, that has stayed with us throughout the course of the pandemic and has a lot to do with why people have been so enthusiastic around the Northeast about getting vaccinated,” he said.
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