U.S. Covid Hospitalizations Continue Tracking Downward

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the U.S. continued to fall, with the seven-day average of patients with confirmed or suspected cases easing to 134,000 on Wednesday, down 16% from a Jan. 20 high, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Deaths, a lagging indicator, are still ticking upward, reaching a seven-day average of 2,530, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, though they are still off the highs recorded in January last year. Public health experts say that while the more contagious Omicron variant of the virus is less likely to cause severe illness than previous variants, the large number of infections this winter means it is continuing to cause a large and growing number of fatalities.

Still, the drop-off in hospitalizations combined with the effect of vaccinations is giving health experts reason to be optimistic that the current wave of infections might have crested, especially in densely-populated coastal states that were first hit, and that deaths will also decline in the coming weeks.

Optimism is gaining a foothold in Europe, too.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/us-covid-hospitalizations-continue-tracking-downward/ar-AATqUQz?li=BBnb7Kz

[onecaliberal]

1. Not here, cases are still going up, hospitalizatons are still going up.

deaths are still going up. People here are too stupid to get vaccinated and to mask. The board meeting at our local school district last night literally had parents still demanding to drop the mask mandate for students indoors. And they don't want to stop there, they are demanding teachers stop masking because they can't see teacher smiling.

republican death panels are alive and well here in the central valley.

[FBaggins]

2. Isn't "here" California?

Cases in CA have been falling for almost three weeks. Hospitalizations peaked a couple of weeks ago. Deaths look like they'll peak in about a week.

[onecaliberal]

3. That might be true State wide, if you look where I live in the state you'll see

It NOT going down by any measure. Local news this morning reported we are 2 to 3 weeks behind the Bay Area. I live in Devin Nunes old district.

Just because overall numbers in the state are down as I stated above, where I live in the central valley they are UP, and not even slowing yet.

[FBaggins]

4. Isn't his district primarily Tulare county?

Tulare, Fresno, Kings, and Kern all look consistent with the statewide figures

The Tulare 7-day case average is down by about a third from two weeks ago. That is indeed about two weeks behind the state overall, but clearly falling.

[onecaliberal]

5. No, I am NOT in tulare county.

[FBaggins]

6. Feel free to point to a county in CA22 where infections are still going up

Fresno case counts are similarly declining over the last two weeks by about a third.

Death rates in neither county ever climbed appreciably during Omicron, and thus can't be "still going up"

[onecaliberal]

7. Deaths are up today, deaths have been up for a month. There are zero beds in this county.

2,464
total deaths
7-day average: 4.3
14-day change: +36.4%
Updated Feb. 3 1:27 a.m. Pacific


The county and the city are also two different things. The city is a disaster and there are zero beds in our only level 1 trauma center between here and LA. My co-workers mother died in the hallway a few months ago from a treatable disease.