50 States of COVID Hospitalization Information 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, in accordance with knowledge 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 newest numbers will not be practically as dangerous because the numbers reported through the worst weeks of the COVID pandemic, however they imply “endemic COVID” remains to be an enormous downside.

Working-age hospitalizations: The variety of COVID hospitalizations of individuals ages 20 by way of 59 was 5,045, in accordance with the HHS knowledge.

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

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

About 22% of the adults hospitalized for COVID within the newest week had been ages 20 by way of 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 displaying how hospital-reported dying counts have modified since January 2023, see the gallery above.

For knowledge on all 50 states and another jurisdictions, see the desk beneath.

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

The counts look like affected by extreme knowledge lag.

The fairly full counts out there 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 through the comparable interval in 2019, earlier than COVID got here to gentle.

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