50 States of COVID Hospitalization Knowledge for the Week Ending Jan. 27

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U.S. COVID-19 surge figures nonetheless look horrible.

Hospital-reported COVID deaths of individuals of all ages elevated to 935, or 30% greater than the full reported the earlier week, based on data reported by hospitals to the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies.

Excluding weeks when spurts of information from Iowa threw off the counts, it’s the worst determine since  early February 2023.

What it means: The most recent numbers are usually not almost as unhealthy because the numbers reported throughout the worst weeks of the COVID pandemic, however they imply “endemic COVID” continues to be an enormous drawback.

Working-age hospitalizations: The variety of COVID hospitalizations of individuals ages 20 via 59 was 5,045, based on the HHS information.

That was down 10% from the earlier week, however it means the depend has been over 5,000 for seven straight weeks, for the reason that week ending Dec. 16, 2023.

Beforehand, the depend had been under 5,000, and normally under 3,500, each week from early March 2023.

About 22% of the adults hospitalized for COVID within the newest week have been ages 20 via 59.

Tough 4% of all individuals admitted to U.S. hospitals with COVID are dying.

For a have a look at the 5 states with the best working-age hospitalization counts, together with a chart exhibiting how hospital-reported demise counts have modified since January 2023, see the gallery above.

For information on all 50 states and another jurisdictions, see the desk under.

Whole U.S. deaths: The U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention makes use of very early all-cause mortality counts to measure the impression of infectious illness management outbreaks.

The counts seem like affected by extreme information lag.

The fairly full counts obtainable for the primary weeks of the yr present that the nation is averaging about 57,000 deaths of individuals of all ages from all causes per week, or about 21% greater than it was throughout the comparable interval in 2019, earlier than COVID got here to mild.

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