Statewide, the COVID positivity rate continues to skyrocket

Across the state, COVID positivity rates continue to soarThe latest data from Friday showed the percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive remains just 0.1% below its highest point in the past 12 months, and there have only been a few weeks in the past three years where the positivity rate has exceeded 13%.

After hitting a record low in March, it grew slowly in May, The percentage of positive coronavirus tests began to rise sharply in June..

upon As of June 1, the positivity rate was 4.1%, up from just under 2% in May.As of July 8, the most recent date for which data is available, that rate had tripled to 13.0%. The state’s positivity rate is now higher than it was during this winter’s COVID-19 surge, when it was just over 11%, and is on track to surpass its most recent high of 13.1% in September 2023.

The highest positivity rates since COVID-19 tests became readily available occurred in December 2021 and January 2022, when the positivity rate exceeded 20% for nearly three weeks.