The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said hospitalizations rose yet again last week by another 19%. Deaths from the virus also saw a large jump: 21% in one week.
The summer surge in COVID-19 spread could extend into fall. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said hospitalizations rose yet again last week by another 19%. Deaths from the virus also saw a large jump: 21% in one week.
The spread of the virus appears to be a problem just about everywhere. Only a few states – Alaska, New Hampshire and North Dakota – saw COVID-related hospital admissions drop last week.
The other 47 states saw hospitalizations remain stable or increase. More than half of states – 26 to be exact – experienced a “substantial increase” in people being admitted with COVID-19, the CDC said.
A “substantial” jump, shaded in dark orange on the CDC map below, occurs when new hospital admissions increase by more than 20% in a single week.
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Twenty-six states had a 20% or larger increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations week over week, the CDC said on August 28, 2023. (Map: CDC)
The biggest spike was in South Dakota, where hospitalizations increased by more than 127% in a single week, according to CDC tracking.
Help is on the way in the form of a new booster shot targeting a recent strain of the omicron variant – but it’s not expected to be approved until the end of September.
In the meantime, things might get worse as students head back to classrooms and dorm rooms.
“Overall, I would expect cases and hospitalizations to increase – then decrease again before they rise in the late fall and early winter,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UCSF, when asked about back-to-school season’s impact on COVID spread.
“This has been the pattern for the past three years and may be where COVID may settle to: a smaller swell in the summer and a larger increase in cases in the late fall and winter,” he said.
Over the next few weeks, the Food and Drug Administration and the CDC are expected to give more information on who can get the new booster shot and when.
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If anyone’s confused about why Florida’s numbers look stable, the Florida government intentionally fucked with the way they count COVID-19 cases, so their numbers are almost 100% certain to be wrong.
As for the rest, yeah, the whole country is clearly doing worse for the most part. But the ones doing the very worst are, shall we say, the usual suspects. (I.e., conservative Republican-run states.)
From what I recall they do this delayed count thing, so that cases from a month ago count, but more recent cases don’t until they’ve been “confirmed”.
The resulting graph makes it looks like cases are on the decline, always.
Other states just count positive results in real time, or as close as they can.
Oh perfect, that booster should be in most arms of those who actively vaccinate by the time this wave ends.
Why not emergency authorize the new vaccine immediately?
Oh I forgot. Republicans. That’s why.
But guys, haven’t you heard? Covid is weak now and forever more! I couldnt possibly deprive the world of seeing the bottom half of my face, and lines were meant to be waited in crotch to crotch! /s
I’d like to see some absolute numbers before I panic about percentages. 12 people instead of 10 is a 20% increase.
The complete absence of such numbers tells me everything I need to know right now.
“My assumptions based on incomplete data make me smart.”
That’s what you sound like.
Have you looked at the data? https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00 Its hardly anything newsworthy, and its a constant barrage of crap news like this that made me largely tune it out after omnicron and getting my vaccinations. I’m sure I’m not the only one skipping over most “OMG COVID” articles. “News” like this does more harm than good.
btw: “You’re a dipshit and I want everyone to know I’m smarter than you” is what you sound like.
