SATURDAY UPDATES: 2,000 Missourians hospitalized with Covid-19
The state now has a seven day positivity rate of 11.6% on Saturday, The change in positivity comes along with 1,832 additional confirmed cases bringing the total to 638,209 since the start of pandemic.
Health officials also recorded 689 new probable cases with a total number of 130,812 antigen test results being positive.
Four new deaths were recorded Saturday. DHSS has recorded a total of 10,655 deaths in the state since the start of the virus.
The state dashboard says new cases are down by 10.5% over the past seven days. The positivity rate dropped by 1.3% in that same time, while tests are down 1.4%.
In the state's healthcare system, 2,211 people are dealing with COVID-19 infections. Of those, 588 are in the ICU and 377 are on ventilators.
Saturday numbers show that 52.1% of Missouri residents have gotten at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine. For Missourians 18 and older that number is at 63.3% and 39.1% for those ages 12 to 17.
In total, 5,823,605 of the vaccine have been put into the arms of residents in the Show-Me State. In the past 7 days, the average daily doses given was 12,766.
