| Test MV/Drive-through site | MV Hospital | Other/Boards of Health | Aquinnah | Totals | Increase in number of cases, last 7 days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total tests performed | 19182 | 6486 | 305 | 25973 | ||
| Total negatives | 18367 | 6312 | 301 | 24980 | ||
| Total pending | 768 | 107 | 4 | 879 | ||
| Total confirmed positives | 47 | 68 | 2 | 0 | 113 | |
| Percentage positive of total tests performed | .24% | 1.05% | .43% | |||
| Antibody tests, Off-Island tests, symptomatic positives | 24 | 24 | ||||
| Total Cases (positive tests + antibody tests + symptomatic positives) | 137 | 20 |
Updated July 17
After reporting one new case of COVID-19 on Thursday, the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital reported no new positive cases Friday.
In total, the hospital has tested 2,254 patients. Of those 33 are positives, 2,162 are negative, and 59 are pending results.
On Thursday, the hospital reported a new case. The hospital went the entire month of June without a confirmed positive.
As of Thursday, Island Health Care — set up at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School with the help of Quest Diagnostics—has tested 4,572 individuals, 11 of whom have tested positive, 4,379 negative, and 182 pending results.
The boards of health have linked 23 of the confirmed cases to several cases among eight different household groups.
The town of Aquinnah has tested 40 people. All 40 tests have come back negative.
The Martha’s Vineyard Boards of Health have separately confirmed another positive case, bringing the Island’s total confirmed cases to 44.
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, town of Aquinnah, boards of health, and TestMV, the testing site at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, each report their own testing numbers. Those numbers are then all compiled by the boards of health.
The actual number of cases can be difficult to count due to lag time and overlaps in testing each day.
Of the 45 cases, 27 are female, and 18 are male. Of those, 13 of the cases are aged 50-59 years old, 10 are 20-29 years old, seven cases are 60-69 years old, six are 30-39 years old, four are 20 years old or younger, three are 40-49, and two are 70 years or older.
The boards of health are also reporting on probable cases. On Tuesday, the Island’s total number of presumed positives is 19, of which 16 were positive antibody tests, and three were symptomatically positive.
Of those, 11 are female and eight are male. Of the 19 presumed positive cases, six are aged 60-69, four are aged 50-59, three are aged 40-49, three are aged 20-29, two are under 20 years old, and one is over the age of 70.
This all comes as Massachusetts is seeing a decline in confirmed cases, deaths, and hospitalizations, but also as the confirmed cases are increasing across the country.
At the state level Thursday, there were 143 new confirmed cases, bringing the state total to 106,271. There were 11 new deaths which brought the total number of deaths to 8,163. There have been 995,374 tests conducted across Massachusetts.
