COVID-19 Deaths Spike In CT As Positivity & Hospitalizations Drop

CONNECTICUT — The daily coronavirus positivity and hospitalization rates are usually leading indicators of COVID-19 fatalities, and both trends have been on a marked downswing the past week, if not all of September.

That hasn't been the case since the beginning of the month, when deaths associated with the virus began climbing steadily. In the latest set of weekly data released Thursday by the Department of Public Health, COVID-19 deaths have spiked.

The numbers this week weren't helped by some DPH catch-up bookkeeping. Thursday's total deaths reflects an increase of 146. This total includes 53 deaths newly reported in the last week (17 more than was reported the previous week) and a reconciliation of 93 deaths that occurred among Connecticut residents who died out-of-state. These out-of-state deaths span the entire course of the pandemic with the majority occurring in 2020.

On Thursday, the state's reported daily coronavirus positivity rate dropped to its lowest point since the middle of July, 1.26 percent, with 165 cases confirmed out of 13,098 tests taken.

Out of the 1,592 cases of COVID-19 recorded by the state Department of Public Health in the past seven days, 566, or 35.6 percent, were among residents who had already been completely vaccinated.

The number of residents hospitalized with the coronavirus continues to drop. The number is down 16 beds overnight, to 234.

Most of them (86) can be found within hospitals in Hartford County.

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