Here is Minnesota's COVID-19 update for Tuesday, May 11

The latest figures from MDH.

Author:: Joe Nelson
Publish date:: May 11, 2021

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Tuesday's COVID-19 update from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) includes 583 new cases and nine new deaths.

The state's death toll is 7,240 since the start of the pandemic. Of the total deaths, 61% (4,378) were residents of long-term care.

Through May 9, the state reported that 2,667,770 people have received at least 1 dose of the COVID-19 vaccine while 2,176,534 people have completed their vaccine series.

Sixty (60) percent of Minnesotans aged 16-plus have received at least one shot, while 88% of the age-65-plus population has had at least one dose of a vaccine. Overall, 48% of the state's population has had at least one dose.

MDH has a public dashboard to track vaccine progress in Minnesota, and you can view it here.

Hospitalizations

Hospital data for Tuesday was not yet available at the time this story was published.

Through May 9, the number of people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Minnesota was TBD, which is TBD from the 481 reported Monday and continues a downward trend since mid-April.

Of those hospitalized, TBD people were in intensive care (TBD from 133 reported Monday) and 348 were receiving non-ICU treatment (TBD from 348).

Here's how Minnesota's hospital admissions have progressed since Mar. 7.

Mar. 7: 223 (177 non-ICU, 46 ICU)
Mar. 13: 255 (194 non-ICU, 61 ICU)
Mar. 20: 324 (246 non-ICU, 78 ICU)
Mar. 27: 356 (264 non-ICU, 92 ICU)
Apr. 2: 439 (337 non-ICU, 112 ICU)
Apr. 8: 595 (461 non-ICU, 134 ICU)
Apr. 14: 699 (531 non-ICU, 168 ICU)
Apr. 20: 676 (483 non-ICU, 193 ICU)
Apr. 26: 641 (457 non-ICU, 184 ICU)
May 2: 576 (421 non-ICU, 155 ICU)
May 9: 481 (348 non-ICU, 133 ICU)
May 10:

Testing and positivity rates

The 583 positive results in Tuesday's update were from 11,514 completed tests, creating a test positivity rate of 5.06%.

According to Johns Hopkins University, Minnesota's test positivity rate over the past seven days is 5.27%.

The World Health Organization recommends that a percent positive rate (total positives divided by total completed tests) of below 5% for at least two weeks is necessary to safely reopen the economy. That 5% threshold is based on total positives divided by total tests.

Coronavirus in Minnesota by the numbers

Total tests: 9,535,069 (up from 9,523,868)
People tested: 4,131,235 (up from 4,127,264)
People with at least 1 vaccine shot: 2,667,770 (up from 2,661,153)
People who have completed vaccine series: 2,176,534 (up from 2,163,864)
Positive cases: 589,527 (up from 588,952)
Deaths: 7,240 – 398 of which are "probable*" (up from 7,231)
Patients no longer requiring isolation: 571,752 (up from 570,036)

* Probable deaths are patients who died after testing positive using the COVID-19 antigen test, which is thought to be less accurate than the more common PCR test.