COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]
The hospitalization data is so bad at the moment from the combination of Omicron being so widespread and very few states separating the difference between hospitalizations from covid and hospitalizations with covid that it is really a useless stat at this point.
I'll even go a step farther. I bet hospitalization data shows the Omicron decline before regular testing data does since there appears to be less delay in the hospitalization data. In other words it is so widespread that when it starts to decrease the hospitalization data will actually serve as a better surveillance than the testing data.
Remember when the heat maps were just certain regions... well, it's pretty much everyone now.
You can see the change with per capita hospitalizations among 50-59 yr olds. They were a hair above average, to well above during Delta, and then back to average. However, rates are still high. Now, yes, some of that is they went to the hospital for something and found they had covid, vs going FOR covid.
Not sure I'd say anywhere, other than maybe DC has peaked, but some places are getting close to it.
Here's Louisiana
Remember when it was only South Florida about a month ago?
Miami-Dade has more daily cases than the State of Louisiana...
Texas
Cali
The hospitalization data is so bad at the moment from the combination of Omicron being so widespread and very few states separating the difference between hospitalizations from covid and hospitalizations with covid that it is really a useless stat at this point.
I'll even go a step farther. I bet hospitalization data shows the Omicron decline before regular testing data does since there appears to be less delay in the hospitalization data. In other words it is so widespread that when it starts to decrease the hospitalization data will actually serve as a better surveillance than the testing data.