FYI: Covid hospitalization hot spots across the U.S., in five charts

[ShazzieB]

Updated daily.

Covid-19 hospitalizations are once again ticking upward after a lull in October and early November, with tens of thousands more Americans filling hospital beds across the country in the past four weeks.

The increase is particularly noticeable in the Rust Belt and the Southwest. As of Wednesday, Michigan's population-adjusted rate is highest in the nation, followed by Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

States along the East Coast, from Massachusetts to North Carolina, are seeing the greatest percentage increase in hospitalizations in the past two weeks. More than 600 people are hospitalized with Covid in Connecticut as of Wednesday; that's up from 374 people two weeks ago, an 82 percent increase and highest in the nation.

Track the hardest-hit states with this NBC News analysis of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Covid hospitalizations data. This article will be updated daily.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/article/covid-hospitalization-hot-spots-across-u-s-five-charts-n1285965

[SheltieLover]

1. Ty, ShazzieB!

Stay safe!

😷

[brer cat]

2. Good info, ShazzieB.

Ususally the south east figures very prominately. but now it's the midwest.

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Thanks for this info Shazzie

[madville]

4. One thing people aren't understanding about Omicron

Is they keep saying it’s “milder” or the hospitalization rate may be lower, but it’s far more transmissible.

I read it has a 30% lower risk of hospitalization. Ok great, but if twice as many people get infected that means the total number of hospitalizations would increase 40% over current numbers. It’s still a dangerous thing even if it’s being sold as milder.

[LisaL]

5. Yep.

And our hospitals are already full.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. I Read Differently

What I read was the hospitalization rate is 30%, not 30% lower.
Besides, the vast majority of cases are still delta.
For instance, the NFL & NBA had the recent uptick in cases (in part because the testing regime began including vaxxed players the week of Thanksgiving. In the NFL, they had 37 new cases in a week. One was omicron. 36 of 37 were prior variants.
Not sure your math works out based upon the available information.

[LisaL]

15. Not sure what you read. It doesn't even appear all that milder than delta, if hospitalization is

only reduced by 30%, which is what being reported.

"The analysis, released Tuesday by the country's largest health care administrator, found that on average 29 percent fewer people were being admitted to hospital in the region than previously with the delta variant. However, the study also found that two Pfizer jabs gave 70 percent protection against hospitalization from the new variant, compared with 90 percent seen in the delta wave."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/omicron-covid-variant-resistant-pfizer-vaccine-south-africa-rcna8678

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Like I Said...

…I read a different analysis.
I’m subbing today & the kids come in a few minutes. Will look for the cite later.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Hangover from Thanksgiving and Black Friday?

Around the time when schools reopened, I sensed a lot of complacency in the general public and reports of Omicron being very mild didn't help a damn bit.

IMO, people are prone to do some pretty stupid shit around holidays and vacations. Thanksgiving and Black Friday are mostly indoor events, so perhaps there is some correlation.

KY.... .....

[IronLionZion]

7. The highly vaccinated blue states are disappointing

like Vermont, Rhode Island, New Mexico, etc. I'm going to speculate that they are small states without a lot of hospital capacity to begin with and hope that it's mostly unvaccinated conservatives.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Well I know two people right now in CT who are fully

Vaccinated and boosted and follow rules who have tested positive and who are sick. Not in hospital. Neither has any idea how they could have gotten it.

Think the ptb are overestimating the vaccine efficacy.

[IronLionZion]

11. If they don't need to be hospitalized

then their vaccination must have reduced the severity of their infection. Hope they get well soon.

I posted this article explaining how our T cells in vaccinated people are still able to effectively fight an infection in breakthrough cases that evade our antibodies.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216145103

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Yes get that, thanks. I am just pointing out that people ARE

contracting the virus with 3 V's and masks. And they literally can not even imagine where/who they could have possibly gotten it from. This is the scariest part right now.

[IronLionZion]

13. There's a chance most of us will get Omicron

since it is so highly transmissible and evades vaccine antibodies. Just walking about in my city I notice a lot of people with the sniffles these days. Maybe it's just a cold or allergies, maybe it's Omicron.

[LisaL]

16. Nobody knows since we don't have enough rapid tests.

Sure looks like it's going to infect a lot of people. Fasten up your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride.

[Emile]

10. Indiana 2nd highest doesn't surprise me!

I had a doctor appointment on Tuesday. Rules for the clinic is everyone must wear a mask. A guy comes in with no mask on and at the check in window they give him a mask. The SOB told the girl he is not worried about catching covid and he'll let the good lord decide when it's time for him to go. The girl at the window says I totalled agree. So this idiot sits down in the waiting room with his mask in his hands. Another guy comes in to get a CDL physical with no mask on and they also give him a mask too and sits down across from the other guy. So now we have two guys with no masks on whining to each other about government overreaction to covid. When they called my name to come in I mentioned they have two guys in the waiting room with no masks on and they replied what can you do. I said maybe you need to be more concerned about the health of your patients who are following the rules of the clinic and tell the two idiots to leave! Crickets. . .

[bullwinkle428]

14. If that jagoff who stated he will "let the good lord decide when it's time for him to go",

why is he at the doctor's office in the first place??

[LisaL]

17. A very good question.

NT

[Emile]

19. Exactly! +2

[ShazzieB]

21. I guess if he infects others with covid, he'll say that's the "good lord's" will, too!

Makes a nice, handy cop-out, doesn't it?

I'm not an atheist, but pinheads like that make it easy to understand why some people are.

[ShazzieB]

20. The doctors' offices I go to would flat out send someone packing for refusing to wear a mask.

They are all super strict about that sort of thing around here. Most of them have other rules, too, like who you can bring in with you (if someone is with you, they usually have to wait in the car), and some have rearranged the waiting room furniture so you can't even sit too close to anyone else.

I don't know how much of it is due to our statewide mask mandate, or how much is due to living in a major metro area surrounding a big blue city, but I never see anyone without a mask in the grocery store, much less a medical facility of any kind. And I have never, since this thing began, seen anyone pitch a fit about being told to wear one.

Oh, you see the occasional cheater wearing their mask just a tad bit too law, but blatant maskholes are rare. I wish every state, city, and town in the country was like this.