ST. LOUIS — After reporting no new COVID-19 deaths each of the last two days, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 339 deaths, many of which occurred in December 2020 and January.
In the department's weekly death certificate analysis, the department discovered 339 COVID-19 deaths that were previously unreported. According to a press release from health department, 11 of the deaths occurred in November 2020, 190 occurred in December 2020 and 138 occurred in January.
The health department reported 460,487 COVID-19 cases and 7,088 deaths as of Tuesday, a single-day increase of 890 and 340 deaths. One of the deaths was in the last 24 hours, the health department said.
The department also reported 4,173,283 PCR tests, an increase of 7,771 in the last 24 hours.
The department also reported 530,485 vaccine doses administered, a 14,635-dose increase in the last day. The vaccine dashboard said 6.7% of Missourians have received their first dose, up from 6.5% yesterday.
In Illinois, the health department reported 1,130,917 cases and 19,306 deaths as of Tuesday, a single-day increase of 2,304 cases and 47 deaths.
The department also reported 16,161,454 tests, a single-day increase of 60,899 tests.
The state's seven-day positivity rate decreased from 3.9% to 3.7% Tuesday.
The Metro East's seven-day positivity rate reported Tuesday was 6.5%, which is at the threshold to return to Phase 4 restrictions.
The regional dashboard also reported 20% ICU bed available. The region needs to remain above 20% for restrictions to be loosened.
As of Tuesday, the Metro East is the only region still under Tier 2 mitigations.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force reported improving numbers again Tuesday.
The following data are the combined figures from the four major health systems (BJC HealthCare, Mercy, SSM Health, St. Luke’s Hospital) that are part of the task force, for Feb. 2.
- New hospital admissions (data lagged two days) decreased - from 59 yesterday to 51 today.
- The seven-day moving average of hospital admissions (data lagged two days) decreased – from 63 yesterday to 61 today.
- The seven-day moving average of hospitalizations decreased - from 534 yesterday to 517 today.
- Inpatient confirmed COVID positive hospitalizations decreased – from 496 yesterday to 474 today.
- Inpatient suspected COVID positive hospitalizations increased – from 44 yesterday to 55 today.
- The number of confirmed COVID positive patients in the ICUs decreased – from 101 yesterday to 98 today.
- The number of confirmed COVID positive patients on ventilators increased – from 75 yesterday to 76 today.
- The number of COVID deaths increased – from 6 yesterday to 8 today.
- The seven-day moving average of COVID deaths remained the same at 11 today.
- Across the system hospitals, 83 COVID-19 patients were discharged to home yesterday, bringing the cumulative number of COVID-19 patients discharged to 17,912.
- Today, staffed bed hospital capacity is at 82%, an average across our task force hospitals. The ICU’s are at 83% of their total staffed bed capacity.