By InDepthNH.org staff

A press release sent Thursday from the state Department of Health and Human Services said there are 376 new COVID-19 test results and 17 people hospitalized. But the New Hampshire Hospital Association site shows a much higher number for hospitalizations.

Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Gov. Chris Sununu chided them for reporting inaccurate COVID-19 information, but on Wednesday and Thursday, Sununu spokesman Ben Vihstadt didn’t respond to questions about why DHHS continues to send out the daily press releases if they are inaccurate.

InDepthNH.org will post the link to the New Hampshire Hospital Association data as well as the state’s press release from now on and ask Sununu daily which are accurate.

https://nhha.org/index.php/whats-new/1545-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-outbreak

The New Hampshire Hospital Association said Thursday there were 67 confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospitals, 7 suspected COVID-19 cases and 47 COVID-recovering, which includes hospitalized patients no longer included in confirmed COVID-19 statistics once removed from transmission-based precautions but continue to receive inpatient treatment for COVID-19 related illness.

From NH DHHS: On Thursday, April 21, 2022, DHHS announced 376 new positive test results for COVID-19 for Wednesday, April 20. Today’s results include 291 people who tested positive by PCR test and 85 who tested positive by antigen test. Test results for previous days are still being processed and updated case counts for prior days will be reflected on the COVID-19 interactive dashboard. There are now 2,525 current COVID-19 cases diagnosed in New Hampshire.

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 fifty individuals under the age of 18 and the rest are adults with 58% being female and 42% being male. The new cases reside in Rockingham (76), Strafford (55), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (54), Grafton (30), Merrimack (30), Sullivan (20), Cheshire (18), Belknap (15), Carroll (11), and Coos (3) counties, and in the cities of Manchester (32) and Nashua (24). The county of residence is being determined for eight new cases.

There are currently 17 hospitalized patients being treated for COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 307,103 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.

Current Situation in New Hampshire

New Hampshire 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Summary Report
(updated April 21, 2022, 9:00 AM)

The most up-to-date laboratory testing data, positivity rates and vaccination data are available on the COVID-19 dashboards at https://www.covid19.nh.gov/dashboard/overview. For additional hospitalization data, please visit the New Hampshire Hospital Association’s COVID-19 information page at https://nhha.org/index.php/whats-new/1545-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-outbreak.

For more information, please visit the DHHS COVID-19 webpage at https://www.covid19.nh.gov/.