March 30 NH DHHS COVID-19 update: 408 positive results with 40 in Manchester; no deaths reported

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CONCORD, NH – On Tuesday, March 30, 2021, DHHS announced 408 new positive test results for COVID-19, for a current PCR test positivity rate of 3.3%. Today’s results include 243 people who tested positive by PCR test and 165 who tested positive by antigen test. There are now 2,864 current COVID-19 cases diagnosed in New Hampshire. Of the results reported today:

• 3/29: 408 new cases

Several cases are still under investigation. Additional information from ongoing investigations will be incorporated into future COVID-19 updates. Of those with complete information, there are seventy individuals under the age of 18 and the rest are adults with 47% being female and 53% being male. The new cases reside in Rockingham (106), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (65), Strafford (38), Merrimack (36), Grafton (21), Cheshire (18), Carroll (12), Sullivan (8), Belknap (7), and Coos (6) counties, and in the cities of Manchester (40) and Nashua (28). The county of residence is being determined for twenty-three new cases.

Community-based transmission continues to occur in the State and has been identified in all counties. Of those with complete risk information, most of the cases have either had close contact with a person with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis or have recently traveled.

There are currently 80 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 83,714 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.

 Current Situation in New Hampshire

 New Hampshire 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Summary Report (updated March 30, 2021, 9 a.m.)

NH Persons with COVID-19	83,714
Recovered	79,613 (95%)
Deaths Attributed to COVID-19	1,237 (1%)
Total Current COVID-19 Cases	2,864
Current Hospitalizations	80
Total Persons Tested at Selected Laboratories, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) (see 2 below)	659,022
Total Persons Tested at Selected Laboratories, Antibody Laboratory Tests (see 2 below)	38,678
Persons with Specimens Submitted to NH PHL	70,364
Persons with Test Pending at NH PHL (see 3 below)	295

1 Includes specimens positive at any laboratory and those confirmed by CDC confirmatory testing.

2 Includes specimens tested at the NH Public Health Laboratories (PHL), LabCorp, Quest, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and those sent to CDC prior to NH PHL testing capacity.

3 Includes specimens received and awaiting testing at NH PHL. Does not include tests pending at commercial laboratories.

COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Update (as of March 28*)

Age and Sex of COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients

Population Group	Estimated NH Population Size4	Proportion of Population	Received 1 Dose			Received 2 Doses
			Proportion of Dose 1	Persons	Estimated Vaccine Coverage	Proportion of Dose 2	Persons	Estimated Vaccine Coverage
Total	1,356,458	100.0%	100.0%	329,400	24.3%	100.0%	175,947	13.0%
Sex
Female	684,192	50.4%	57.9%	190,800	27.9%	59.6%	104,870	15.3%
Male	672,266	49.6%	40.5%	133,265	19.8%	39.7%	69,920	10.4%
Other	n/a	n/a	0.3%	824	n/a	0.1%	261	n/a
Decline to Specify	n/a	n/a	1.4%	4,511	n/a	0.5%	896	n/a
Age Group (in years)
0 – 24	384,307	28.3%	2.6%	8,492	2.2%	2.5%	4,365	1.1%
25 – 34	169,075	12.5%	7.3%	23,883	14.1%	8.2%	14,480	8.6%
35 – 44	154,674	11.4%	8.9%	29,155	18.8%	9.6%	16,810	10.9%
45 – 54	190,242	14.0%	11.1%	36,568	19.2%	11.2%	19,739	10.4%
55 – 64	212,515	15.7%	16.2%	53,212	25.0%	15.5%	27,251	12.8%
65 – 74	146,933	10.8%	32.7%	107,597	73.2%	33.1%	58,297	39.7%
75 – 84	68,224	5.0%	16.4%	54,155	79.4%	15.4%	27,103	39.7%
85+	30,488	2.2%	5.0%	16,338	53.6%	4.5%	7,902	25.9%

 Race/Ethnicity Identified COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients

Race/Ethnicity is known for 94% of COVID-19 vaccine recipients.

Race/Ethnicity	Estimated NH Population Size4	Proportion of Population	Received 1 Dose			Received 2 Doses
			Proportion of Dose 1	Persons	Estimated Vaccine Coverage	Proportion of Dose 2	Persons	Estimated Vaccine Coverage
White2	1,220,322	90.0%	87.5%	275,355	22.6%	89.54%	150,338	12.3%
Hispanic/Latino1	52,663	3.9%	1.8%	5,757	10.9%	1.64%	2,756	5.2%
Black or African American2	19,146	1.4%	0.6%	2,028	10.6%	0.64%	1,072	5.6%
Asian2	39,954	2.9%	1.9%	5,973	14.9%	2.00%	3,356	8.4%
Other3	24,373	1.8%	0.6%	1,964	8.1%	0.50%	839	3.4%
Unknown / Not Reported	n/a	n/a	7.5%	23,742	n/a	5.69%	9,546	n/a
Total	1,356,458	100.0%	100.0%	314,819	23.2%	100.00%	167,907	12.4%

¹ Hispanic/Latino includes people of any race.

² All other races are non-Hispanic/Latino or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity unknown.

³ Other includes non-Hispanic: American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, or two or more races.

⁴ Census Bureau Population Estimates 7/1/18 from https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2010s-state-detail.html. Analysis by K.M. Johnson, Demographer, Univ of New Hampshire, 4/19/20.

Data represent persons vaccinated at NH vaccination sites, excluding federally allocated vaccine doses (n=63,432), through March 28, 2021 and entered into VAMS.

Vaccine Doses Allocated, Distributed, and Administered by Vaccination Site Group

Vaccination Sites	Doses Available for Site to Order1	Doses Distributed2	Total Doses Administered to Patients3	1-dose Vaccine4 Doses	2-dose Vaccine5
					First Doses	Second Doses
Hospitals	119,617	94,322	110,760	172	63,761	46,827
Long-term care pharmacy partnership program*	54,015	51,675	49,275	0	26,514	22,761
State-managed fixed sites	311,106	317,440	292,748	0	191,728	101,020
Regional public health network mobile sites	97,128	59,276	54,174	3,207	37,262	13,705
Retail Pharmacy**	93,170	93,884	53,208	0	42,164	11,044
Supersites	20,810	20,810	20,632	11,429	9,203	0
Other	22,227	6,106	4,567	5	4,009	553
Total	718,073	643,513	585,364	14,813	374,641	195,910

¹ Doses available for site to order are the number of first and second doses that have been made available to the site to order.

² Doses distributed are the number of first and second doses that the site has ordered and received at their location. Orders are based on clinic schedules and average uptake of vaccine by participants.

³ Doses administered may exceed the number of doses distributed due to the ability to get extra doses out of a vial, depending on the type of syringe used.

⁴ Includes the single-dose Janssen Biotech vaccine.

⁵ Includes the 2-dose Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

* The LTCF PPP is a federal program that sends pharmacies into LTCF to vaccinate residents and staff. In order for LTCF to access this program in New Hampshire, NH DHHS was required by the CDC to allocate a fixed number of doses to guarantee that pharmacies would have enough vaccine to complete vaccination administration within a four-week time frame. This program remains on schedule as originally anticipated and will be continually monitored to ensure completeness.

**Retail Pharmacy: Includes doses allocated to the State of NH that were distributed to a Pharmacy in addition to doses allocated directly from the federal government to the federal retail pharmacy partnership program.

Vaccine Doses Distributed and Administered by Vaccination Site

Vaccination Sites1	Doses Distributed2	Total Doses Administered to Patients3		1-dose Vaccine4 Doses	2-dose Vaccine5
					First Doses	Second Doses
Hospitals
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital	998	1,024		20	602		402
Androscoggin Valley Hospital	4,182	4,592		11	3,200		1,381
Catholic Medical Center	4,331	4,502		36	2,334		2,132
Cheshire Medical Center	2,725	2,635		0	1,322		1,313
Concord Hospital	5,010	5,300		0	2,703		2,597
Cottage Hospital	385	412		0	213		199
Elliot Hospital	5,525	5,841		0	2,958		2,883
Encompass Health	255	274		0	147		127
Exeter Hospital	3,705	4,099		0	2,060		2,039
Frisbie Memorial Hospital	1,395	1,425		0	730		695
Hampstead Hospital	2,905	3,818		0	2,660		1,158
Huggins Hospital	4,919	5,480		6	3,668		1,806
Littleton Regional Hospital	4,693	7,683		0	5,015		2,668
Lakes Region General Hospital	6,242	10,085		0	6,409		3,676
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital	15,433	17,060		42	9,061		7,957
Memorial Hospital	4,115	8,228		0	5,252		2,976
Monadnock Community Hospital	1,065	1,025		0	521		504
New London Hospital	845	711		0	363		348
New Hampshire Hospital	970	976		0	527		449
Northeast Rehab Hospital	1,340	1,310		0	666		644
Parkland Medical Center	1,130	1,155		0	582		573
Portsmouth Regional Hospital	3,025	3,147		15	1,615		1,517
Southern NH Medical Center	3,292	3,331		0	1,698		1,633
Speare Memorial Hospital	565	693		0	364		329
St. Joseph Hospital	2,809	2,765		40	1,487		1,238
Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital	3,717	2,627		0	1,627		1,000
Valley Regional Hospital	540	539		0	277		262
Weeks Medical Center	2,844	4,491		2	2,871		1,618
Wentworth Douglass Hospital	5,362	5,532		0	2,829		2,703
State-managed fixed sites
State of NH- Capital Area	44,972	41,578		0	26,478		15,100
State of NH- Carroll County (closed Feb 2021)	2,460	1,509		0	1,175		334
State of NH- Central NH	12,326	10,435		0	7,286		3,149
State of NH- Greater Monadnock	24,566	30,326		0	20,384		9,942
State of NH- Greater Nashua	37,615	36,824		0	23,724		13,100
State of NH- Greater Sullivan	15,082	11,768		0	7,573		4,195
State of NH- Manchester	39,194	35,317		0	22,300		13,017
State of NH- North Country (closed Feb 2021)	1,580	746		0	594		152
State of NH- Seacoast	36,812	31,348		0	20,658		10,690
State of NH- South Central	43,482	37,289		0	23,441		13,848
State of NH- Strafford County	31,465	30,785		0	20,849		9,936
State of NH- Upper Valley	11,953	11,713		0	8,060		3,653
State of NH- Winnipesaukee	15,933	13,110		0	9,206		3,904
Regional Public Health Networks (RPHNs)
Capital Area RPHN	5,901	5,476		2,170	1,925		1,381
Carroll County RPHN	2,601	2,923		124	2,062		737
Central NH RPHN	5,620	5,580		0	3,504		2,076
Greater Manchester RPHN	7,319	1,819		0	1,481		338
Greater Nashua RPHN	7,972	6,961		12	5,450		1,499
Greater Sullivan County RPHN	996	1,115		0	732		383
North Country RPHN	3,686	3,735		0	2,415		1,320
Seacoast RPHN	5,321	5,386		15	4,341		1,030
South Central RPHN	4,176	3,887		0	3,420		467
Strafford County RPHN	7,890	8,474		98	6,146		2,230
Upper Valley RPHN	4,710	5,404		788	3,369		1,247
Winnipesaukee RPHN	3,084	3,414		0	2,417		997
Supersites
NH Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH – March 6- 8	11,600	11,429		11,429	0		0
NH Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH – March 27- 28	9,210	9,203		0	9,203		0

¹ Vaccine is distributed equitably across the state to vaccination sites based on a pro-rata share of vaccines available each week and population size of the region being served.

² Doses distributed are the number of doses that the site has ordered and received at their location. Orders are based on clinic schedules and average uptake of vaccine by participants.

³ Doses administered may exceed the number of doses distributed due to the ability to get extra doses out of a vial, depending on the type of syringe used.

⁴ Includes the single-dose Janssen Biotech vaccine.

⁵ Includes the 2-dose Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

* Due to the transition to the new registration system this information is still being processed. The transition will be complete and a full data report will be issued next week.

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Number of Tests Conducted by Date of Report to NH DHHS 

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Tests
Testing Laboratory	3/23	3/24	3/25	3/26	3/27	3/28	3/29	Daily Average
NH Public Health Laboratories	411	426	497	538	263	0	78	316
LabCorp	516	577	451	464	420	327	313	438
Quest Diagnostics	396	554	608	483	548	442	288	474
Mako Medical	556	451	35	23	15	13	8	157
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center	487	388	448	245	490	295	151	358
NorDX Laboratory	479	326	297	223	75	38	41	211
Broad Institute	5,270	5,167	2,399	6,245	3,231	279	2,637	3,604
Other NH Hospital Laboratory	557	719	449	516	358	274	421	471
Other Laboratory*	472	789	678	532	306	291	266	476
University of New Hampshire**	3,472	3,887	3,911	3,691	2,464	61	3,739	3,032
Total	12,616	13,284	9,773	12,960	8,170	2,020	7,942	9,538
Antibody Laboratory Tests
Testing Laboratory	3/23	3/24	3/25	3/26	3/27	3/28	3/29	Daily Average
LabCorp	18	9	15	11	3	1	0	8
Quest Diagnostics	12	15	5	24	12	1	0	10
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center	3	4	4	10	0	0	4	4
NorDX Laboratory	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	1
Other Laboratory*	1	7	9	34	7	3	1	9
Total	34	36	35	80	22	5	5	31

* Includes out-of-state public health laboratories, out-of-state hospital laboratories, and other commercial laboratories not already listed in the table.

Note: Patients who had both antibody and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are accounted for in both tables.

** Includes tests conducted at the UNH laboratoryand their contracted lab Veritas.