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Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths. Summary: New hospitalizations and generally hospital use continue to increase for the fourth week in a row. Reported cases are back to increasing and are in line with what we saw the first week of November 2021. And the laggiest of lagging indicators, deaths, is decreasing but still more than three times as high as it was this time last year. Wastewater does seem to be roughly stable at 20 times where were this time last year. New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients): Time period              - Newly admitted patients June 2021                  -  15.0 Jun 27-Jul 3 2021       - 11.4 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021  ...

Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths. Summary: New hospitalizations and generally hospital use continue to increase for the third week in a row, with the speed of increase increasing as well. Reported cases are back to increasing and are in line with what we saw the first week of November 2021. And the laggiest of lagging indicators, deaths, is decreasing but still more than twice as high as it was this time last year. New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients): Time period              - Newly admitted patients June 2021                  -  15.0 Jun 27-Jul 3 2021       - 11.4 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021        -  72.4  October...

Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths. Summary: New hospitalizations and generally hospital use continue to increase for the second week in a row. Reported cases may have slowed since the prior week but are still 13 times what we were at last week and roughly in line with where we were in October last year. And the laggiest of lagging indicators, deaths, is still more than 5 times as high as it was this time last year. New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients): Time period              - Newly admitted patients June 2021                  -  15.0 Jun 27-Jul 3 2021       - 11.4 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021        -  72.4  October ...

Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths. Summary: New hospitalizations, and indeed all facets of hospitalizations, have stopped improving. Cases have started going back up. And the laggiest of lagging indicators, deaths, is still higher than it was at the lowest this year and more than triple what it was this time last year. New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients): Time period              - Newly admitted patients June 2021                  -  15.0 Jun 27-Jul 3 2021       - 11.4 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021        -  72.4  October 2021            -  60.3 November 2021      ...

Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths. Summary: New hospitalizations improved but just barely while general hospital use and ICU use did not improve. Cases have stopped decreasing, which is not at all surprising given the wastewater data. New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients): Time period              - Newly admitted patients June 2021                  -  15.0 Jun 27-Jul 3 2021       - 11.4 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021        -  72.4  October 2021            -  60.3 November 2021        -  82.5 December 2021         -186.8 January 2022   ...

Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths. Summary: New hospitalizations improved but just barely, same with ICU usage. We're continuing to reduce cases but continuing to slow that reduction. Deaths are roughly static at just over 10 per day, which is about 4 times what we saw the same week last year. New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients): Time period              - Newly admitted patients June 2021                  -  15.0 Jun 27-Jul 3 2021       - 11.4 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021        -  72.4  October 2021            -  60.3 November 2021        -  82.5 December 20...

Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths. Summary: Things are definitely improving (in most ways) but we're not done yet.... not even close. New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients): Time period              - Newly admitted patients June 2021                  -  15.0 Jun 27-Jul 3 2021       - 11.4 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021        -  72.4  October 2021            -  60.3 November 2021        -  82.5 December 2021         -186.8 January 2022             -341.4 Jan 9-15 2022            -436.7 (...

Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths. New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients): Time period              - Newly admitted patients June 2021                  -  15.0 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021        -  72.4  October 2021            -  60.3 November 2021        -  82.5 December 2021         -186.8 January 2022             -341.4 Jan 9-15 2022            -436.7 (peak week) February 2022           -100.5 March 2022               -  34.3 Mar 13-19 ...

Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths. New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients): Time period              - Newly admitted patients June 2021                  -  15.0 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021        -  72.4  October 2021            -  60.3 November 2021        -  82.5 December 2021         -186.8 January 2022             -341.4 Jan 9-15 2022            -436.7 (peak week) February 2022           -100.5 March 2022               -  34.3 Mar 13-19 ...

Weekly update on what's happening at hospitals, cases, and deaths. New Hospitalization (not increased headcount, just the newly admitted patients): Time period              - Newly admitted patients June 2021                  -  15.0 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021        -  72.4  October 2021            -  60.3 November 2021        -  82.5 December 2021         -186.8 January 2022             -341.4 Jan 9-15 2022            -436.7 (peak week) February 2022           -100.5 March 2022               -  34.3 Mar 13-19 ...

New hospitalizations have now gotten above 100 people getting admitted per day and is above the average for February this year, when we were coming down from our last wave, as well as November last year, when we had been increasing for months.  This time we've reached it with just about 1.5 months of increasing. Time period              - new hospitalizations (not increased headcount, these are newly admitted patients) June 2021                  -  15.0 July 2021                   -  19.0  August 2021              -  61.1  September 2021        -  72.4 October 2021            -  60.3 November 2021        -  82.5 December 2021         -186.8 January 2022           ...