Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-04-25

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 144 new cases.
Hospitalizations are +6 to 59
ICUs are +3 to 11 (70% full)
7 day avg stays at 191 cases/day
Transmission risk: High
CDC Community level: Low

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 1072 new cases.
Hospitalizations are -3 to 501
ICUs are +5 to 69 (77% full)
7 day avg rises to 1486 cases/day
Transmission risk: Substantial

Alleghey County daily vaccines drop to 381 1st+2nd doses, 247 booster doses/day (5 day lagged 7 day avg)

Fully vaccinated %s:

Allegheny County: 68.3%, 50.4% of those are boosted.

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid:

PA-wide hospital census: Using 15971 med/surg beds, 393 more than last week, 84 less than 2 weeks ago.

Statewide covid+ hospitalizations continue to hang out between 500-509.

Variants

Little news on variants. Boston and Ontario wastewater continue a likely slow drop. New York cases continue slow rise. We'll get an updated BA.2.12.1 estimate from CDC tomorrow.

For the NE US, a question will be how BA.2.12.1 compares to BA.4 & 5, rising in South Africa.

(I'm kind of suggesting that we probably don't need to worry about all of them, even if one of them is able to cause cases to rise a bit longer in New York and, once it spreads, elsewhere. But this is a relatively low confidence hunch based upon similar-looking advantages.)