Massachusetts Department of Public Health COVID-19 Dashboard - Thursday, March 18, 2021 Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report The Weekly COVID-19 Public Health Report includes enhanced, more granular information to be updated on a weekly, or biweekly basis, including town-by-town case and testing information, cases and deaths in Long Term Care Facilities, updates on nursing facility audit results, and more. 1 / Massachusetts Department of Public Health COVID-19 Dashboard Table of Contents Monitoring COVID – 19 Variants .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Count and Rate of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Tests Performed in MA by City/Town................................................................................................ 4 Map of Rate (per 100,000) of New Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in Past 7 Days by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Region ....................................... 26 MA Contact Tracing: Total Cases and Contacts and Percentage Outreach Completed ..................................................................................................... 27 MA Contact Tracing: Case and Contact Outreach Outcomes ............................................................................................................................................. 28 Massachusetts Residents Quarantined due to COVID-19 .................................................................................................................................................. 29 Massachusetts Residents Isolated due to COVID-19 .......................................................................................................................................................... 30 COVID Cluster by Exposure Setting Type ............................................................................................................................................................................ 31 COVID Cases and Facility-Reported Deaths in Long Term Care Facilities ........................................................................................................................... 34 Long-Term Care Staff Surveillance Testing ......................................................................................................................................................................... 43 CMS Infection Control Surveys Conducted at Nursing Homes ........................................................................................................................................... 61 COVID Cases in Assisted Living Residences ......................................................................................................................................................................... 72 PPE Distribution by Recipient Type and Geography ........................................................................................................................................................... 77 PLEASE NOTE: Data points listed below, previously included in this report, can now be found in our interactive dashboard: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-response-reporting Relocated data include: • Count and Rate of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Tests Performed in MA by County • Map of Average Daily Testing Rate (per 100,000, PCR only) for COVID-19 in MA by City/Town Over Last Two Weeks • Map of Percent Positivity (PCR only) among Tests Performed for COVID-19 in MA by City/Town Over Last Two Weeks • Daily and Cumulative COVID-19 Cases Associated with Higher Education Testing • Daily and Cumulative Total COVID-19 Molecular Tests Associated with Higher Education Testing • Percent Positive of Molecular Tests in MA Associated with Higher Education Testing and Percent of Confirmed Cases by Date Associated with Higher Education Testing • Cases and Case Rate by Age Group for Last Two Weeks • Cases and Case Rate by Sex for Last Two Weeks • Hospitalizations & Hospitalization Rate by Age Group for Last Two Weeks • New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Hospital Admissions • Deaths and Death Rate by Age Group for Last Two Weeks • Deaths and Death Rate by County for Last Two Weeks • Deaths by Sex, Previous Hospitalization, & Underlying Conditions • Cases, Hospitalizations, & Deaths by Race/Ethnicity 2 Massachusetts Department of Public Health COVID-19 Dashboard - Thursday, March 18, 2021 Monitoring COVID - 19 Variants • The Massachusetts Department of Public Health continues to conduct surveillance for COVID-19 variants of concern including B.1.1.7 (first identified in the UK), B.1.351 (first identified in South Africa) and P.1 (first identified in Brazil). • Surveillance, consisting of genetic sequencing on portions of COVID-19 positive specimens, has been ongoing in a collaboration between the Massachusetts State Public health Laboratory with clinical diagnostic laboratories and academic partners, including the CDC. • Surveillance data so far has identified B.1.1.7 and the B.1.351 cases without any recent travel. The first P.1 variant case has now also been identified in Massachusetts. It is critical to do everything possible to keep variants of concern from becoming widespread. • For the latest on variant cases in Massachusetts and the US, visit the National SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance Dashboard | CDC. The public health risk reduction measures remain the same. Individuals must continue to wear masks or face coverings while out in public, maintain 6-foot social distancing, stay home when you are sick, and get tested if you have symptoms or are identified as a close contact 3 / Massachusetts Department of Public Health COVID-19 Dashboard – Thursday, March 18, 2021 Count and Rate of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Tests Performed in MA by City/Town, January 1, 2020 – March 16, 2021 Average Daily Relative Total Change in Total Case Count Percent Incidence Rate Change in Total Total Tests Positive Percent City/Town Case (Last 14 Positivity per 100,000 Case Tests (Last 14 days) Tests (Last Positivity3 Count Days) (Last 14 days) (Last 14 days)1 Counts2 14 days) Abington 1477 36 14.1 Lower 25859 1470 40 2.72% Lower Acton 802 28 8.4 Lower 37634 2117 31 1.46% Lower Acushnet 1186 35 23.9 Higher 18852 928 37 3.99% Higher Adams 245 <5 1.7 Lower 11689 704 2 0.28% Lower Agawam 2283 71 17.8 Lower 54376 2803 79 2.82% Lower Alford <5 0 0 No Change 208 7 0 0% No Change Amesbury 971 18 7.7 No Change 26868 1336 19 1.42% No Change Amherst 2406 249 44.2 Lower 316958 39507 262 0.66% Lower Andover 2355 85 16.8 Higher 83699 4662 95 2.04% Higher Aquinnah <5 0 0 No Change 517 10 0 0% No Change Arlington 1668 70 10.9 Lower 100279 6567 80 1.22% No Change Ashburnham 355 9 10.2 Higher 11425 937 11 1.17% Higher Ashby 148 0 0 No Change 3620 218 0 0% No Change Ashfield 27 0 0 No Change 2129 158 0 0% No Change Ashland 1337 57 20.7 Higher 36868 2379 61 2.56% Higher Athol 617 24 14.3 Lower 19612 960 28 2.92% No Change Attleboro 3663 123 18.9 Higher 67965 3798 133 3.50% Higher Data are current as of 11:59pm on 03/16/2021; For populations <50,000, <5 cases are reported as such or suppressed for confidentiality purposes. 1 For the calculations used to delineate Grey, Green, Yellow, and Red, please see table on page 25. 2Number of new cases occurring over the current two-week period (2/28/2021 - 3/13/2021) compared to the previous two-week period (2/21/2021 - 3/6/2021). Higher=number of new cases in the current two-week period higher than the number of new cases during the last two-week period. Lower=number of new cases in the current two-week period lower than number of new cases during the last two-week period. No change=number of new cases in current two-week period is equal to the number of new cases during the last two-week period. 3Change in percent positivity compared to the previous week’s (3/11/2021) report. No Change= <0.10% difference in the percent positivity. DPH calculates rates per 100,000 population using denominators estimated by the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute using a modified Hamilton-Perry model (Strate S, et al. Small Area Population Estimates for 2011 through 2020, report, Oct 2016.) As of 11/5/2020, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is using the 2019 population estimates, the most current available data. Please note: Data for these tables are based on information available in the DPH surveillance database at a single point in time. Case counts for specific cities and towns change throughout the day as data cleaning occurs (removal of duplicate reports within the system) and new demographic information (assigning cases to their city or town of residence) is obtained. 4 Massachusetts Department of Public Health COVID-19 Dashboard – Thursday, March 18, 2021 Count and Rate of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Tests Performed in MA by City/Town, January 1, 2020 – March 16, 2021 Average Daily Relative Total Change in Total Case Count Percent Incidence Rate Change in Total Total Tests Positive Percent City/Town Case (Last 14 Positivity per 100,000 Case Tests (Last 14 days) Tests (Last Positivity3 Count Days) (Last 14 days) (Last 14 days)1 Counts2 14 days) Auburn 1457 64 27.7 Lower 32228 2181 71 3.26% Lower Avon 442 24 39.2 Higher 7397 454 26 5.73% Higher Ayer 764 13 11.5 Lower 17400 836 17 2.03% Lower Barnstable 3283 283 45.1 Higher 64532 3954 296 7.49% Higher Barre 276 20 25.7 No Change 7396 522 24 4.60% Higher Becket 54 <5 4.0 Higher 2477 156 1 0.64% Higher Bedford 743 19 9.1 Lower 36179 2040