Recent hospitalization rates tended to be higher in the South, including Florida, Alabama and Louisiana.
Federal surveillance data suggests that Covid-19 levels are trending up in the United States, but key metrics remain well below most other points in the pandemic.from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the first week of August, more than 10,000 people were hospitalized with Covid-19. That’s a 60% increase over the course of a month, including a 14% bump in the most recent week.
Rates are now at levels last seen in April. But weekly Covid-19 hospitalizations are still about a quarter of what they were at this time last year and lower than they were for about 90% of the pandemic. The hospitalization rate is still significantly higher for seniors than for other age groups, and the share of hospitalized patients who require time in the intensive care unit or on a ventilator has held relatively steady for the past year and a half.
Overall, just about 1% of all hospital beds – both inpatient and intensive care units – are occupied by Covid-19 patients. At the height of the Omicron surge, more than a fifth of all hospital beds were occupied by Covid-19 patients, CDC
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