COVID-19 Update September 26

COVID-19 Update September 26

Total: 323 confirmed cases in Salem
1 out of every 91 Salem residents have been infected
Salem Today: 0 new cases, <5 active cases

• • • • TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT • • • • • •

The same number of Salem residents are infected as we had 8 days ago. (We did add one, a few days ago, but they were removed from our cumulative total the next day.
I was corrected in what I reported yesterday: We’ve been told that there was a fourth case in Salem High. I’m now told that the student was last in school on Wednesday, not Thursday. I still don’t see where they are showing on the State’s records, either in Salem cases or in the dashboard for Salem schools.
Changes in Cumulative Cases from Last Saturday to today
- No change: Salem & Hudson
- +1: Goffstown, Hampstead, Hanover, Portsmouth
- +2: Hooksett, Lebanon, Milford, Plaistow, Raymond, Weare
- +3: Concord, Londonderry, Pelham, Seabrook
- +6: Durham, Exeter (Exeter from Friday)
- +7: Dover, Merrimack
- +10: Keene, Windham
- +14: Bedford
- +17: Nashua
- +23: Rochester
- +30: Manchester
Communities with more than five active cases: Manchester (38); Nashua (34); Rochester (19); Bedford (17); Durham (12); Dover and Windham (11 each); Brentwood and Merrimack (10 each); Concord, Exeter and Londonderry (6 each).
Yesterday, NH DHHS reported that the testing data “includes test conducted by the University of New Hampshire laboratory and its contracted testing laboratory.” UNH’s dashboard was not updated today. Our new positive and new total infections are at a level that we’ve come to expect.
I am told that Warde Healthcare in Windham has notified families that there are three people associated with that long-term care facility that tested positive for COVID-19.
Today, NH DHHS reported in their press release that 3 kids under 18 were infected. Per NH DHHS’s dashboard, there was 1 child aged 0-9 that were infected, and there were 3 of kids aged 10-19; and 6 young adults aged 20-29, who were infected. The ages with the most new infections today were 30-39 and 80+, each with seven new cases.
Schools with active or recovered cases:
- No preschool. 15 elementary schools (+1). 6 middle schools (+2). 14 high schools (+2). 12 Colleges/Universities.
- The numbers for Salem students remain unchanged (1 active case, even though we know of four Salem High students that have been infected.)
- The number of schools that have had at least one student with an infection is growing (elementary, middle and high school). There hasn’t been a change in the number of colleges and universities reporting new infections.
- All schools have 0-2 kids who are actively infected, except for UNH-Law with 3 students, and UNH-Durham who now has 46 active cases — up 2 from yesterday.
- UNH-Durham also have 90 recovered students, up four from yesterday.
- UNH has added 16 active cases in the past 6 days, and 12 more recovered cases.
- NH DHHS reports that UNH has 1 cluster, but says that do not have a current outbreak.)
NH was able to go ten days without losing anyone from COVID-19. Unfortunately, we lost some today.

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

New positive cases per DHHS: 38
My new positive cases (Total of today’s cases minus yesterday’s total): 36
Children under 18 in new cases: 3
Total positive cases in NH: 8,121
Percentage of today’s tests that are positive: 2.58%
Total PCR tests results reported today (Positive results plus negative results): 1,395
The daily average of diagnostic (PCR) tests reported from 7 days ago to today: 3,568
New negative results reported today: 1,359
Total negative cases in NH: 257,257

• • • • Rockingham County • • • • • •

Total cases in Rockingham County: 2,010
New cases in Rockingham County: 4
Rockingham County: New cases per 100K residents: 1.3
Rockingham County 1-week average per 100K residents: 2.0
Percent of all cases from Rockingham County: 24.8%
Percent of all cases from either Hillsborough County or Rockingham County: 78%

• • • • Active Cases• • • • • •

Active cases in NH: 303
Active cases in Rockingham County: 73
Percent of NH’s active cases that are in Rockingham County: 24.1%

• • • • OTHER TEST RESULTS• • • • • •

New antibody tests: 53
Total antibody tests (No break downs of positive vs. negative): 30,983
The daily average of antibody tests reported from 7 days ago to today: 40
Children diagnosed with MIS-C: (as of 5/22/2020): 1

• • • •RECOVERED IN NH • • • • • •

Announced today: 36
Total Recovered: 7,379
Percentage of diagnosed cases that have recovered: 90.9%

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

New: 0
Current: 18
Total Hospitalized: 734
Percentage of those who have been infected that have been hospitalized: 9.04%

• • • •DEATHS IN NH• • • • • •

Lives lost today: 1
Persons over 60 years of age who died today: 1
Persons under 60 years of age who died today: 0
Total fatalities in NH associated with COVID-19: 439
NH Residents diagnosed with COVID-19 that died: 5.41%
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.

Please stay safe, and always, be kind.

~Bonnie