WEEKLY UPDATE: MDH provides latest on COVID-19 each Thursday
The following report will be updated each Thursday, per the change made by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) in June 2022.
MDH has moved to weekly COVID-19 updates on Thursdays, providing data as of 4 a.m. on the Tuesday prior, unless otherwise noted.
MDH made a shift from its daily weekday updates, which it had been providing through the majority of the COVID-19 pandemic.
MDH reports it will continue to update its vaccine data dashboard each weekday at 11 a.m.
MDH is reporting on a variety of COVID-19 rates and trends. This includes case rates and rates of variants circulating in each county, hospitalization and ICU rates, and COVID-19 death rates, among other data sets.
For each data set shown below, MDH states “a 7-day moving average provides a more accurate representation of case counts by smoothing out any short-term spikes or dips that occur across a week as a result of external factors, such as a facility not being open on certain days or delays in data reporting.”
A comprehensive look at COVID-19 in Minnesota can be found at MDH’s main page here.
COVID-19 cases over time (seven-day moving average)
MDH has moved to tracking a seven-day moving average for its case rate, which can be viewed via the chart below.
For this data, MDH reports cases over time are shown using a seven-day moving average. To get the seven-day moving average, MDH reports adding all the cases from the previous seven days (including the current date) and then dividing by seven.
View additional case and variant data via this MDH webpage.
COVID-19 hospitalizations over time (seven-day moving average)
MDH is also tracking a seven-day moving average for hospitalization/ICU rate, which can be viewed via the chart below.
For this data, MDH reports hospitalizations over time are shown using a seven-day moving average. To get the seven-day moving average, MDH reports adding all the hospitalizations from the previous seven days (including the current date) and then dividing by seven.
View additional hospitalization data via this MDH webpage.
COVID-19 deaths over time (seven-day moving average)
MDH is also tracking a seven-day moving average for the COVID-19 mortality rate, which can be viewed via the chart below.
For this data, MDH reports deaths over time are shown using a seven-day moving average. To get the seven-day moving average, MDH reports adding all the deaths from the previous seven days (including the current date) and then dividing by seven.
View additional mortality rate data via this MDH webpage.
Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is continuing to update its COVID-19 community transmission map, which can be viewed below or here.