50 States of Working-Age COVID-19 Hospitalization Spike Information

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The present wave of COVID-19 circumstances continues to swell, pushing extra working-age People into hospitals.

The variety of individuals ages 20 by way of 59 who entered the hospital with confirmed circumstances of COVID-19 elevated to five,728 within the week ending Dec. 23, in line with hospitalization information collected by the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies.

That was 12.1% greater than the quantity recorded within the week ending Dec. 16, and it was 285% greater than the quantity recorded within the week ending July 1, when the pandemic gave the impression to be ending.

On the state degree, working-age hospitalization rely modifications between the earlier week and the most recent week ranged from a lower of 54%, in Wyoming, as much as a rise of 100%, in a single state in New England, with a median of about 13%.

See the accompanying gallery for a take a look at the 12 hardest-hit states, the place the one-week working-age COVID-19 hospitalization rely will increase have been throughout 36%, and a chart displaying how hospitalization counts have modified since Jan. 1.

See the desk beneath for information for all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

If we had included the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico within the gallery, they might have ranked on the prime, as a result of their week-over-week working-age COVID-19 hospitalization rely will increase have been greater than 100%.

What it means: COVID-19 remains to be right here, together with flu, pneumonia and different infectious illnesses which have historically thrown off monetary professionals’ mortality and life expectancy projections.

Deaths: Age breakdown figures for deaths which might be corresponding to the hospitalization information usually are not but accessible.

The hospitals that reported COVID-19 circumstances informed HHS that 681 of their sufferers died of COVID-19 within the newest week.

That was 18% greater than within the earlier week and 78% greater than within the week ending July 1, and it was the best pandemic-related loss of life rely reported by the hospitals since they despatched in information for the week ending April 1.

Many individuals who’ve COVID-19 recuperate with out going to the hospital, however the variety of COVID-19 sufferers dying every week now quantities to about 2% to three% of the variety of adults of all ages who enter the hospital with the situation every week.

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