Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-04-26

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 156 new cases.
Hospitalizations are +13 to 72
ICUs are -3 to 8 (69% full)
Step0 7 day avg to 197 cases/day
Step1 7 day avg to 189 cases/day
Transmission risk: High
CDC Community level:

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 1538 new cases.
Hospitalizations are +37 to 538
ICUs are -8 to 61 (77% full)
Step0 7 day avg to 1501 cases/day
Step1 7 day avg to 1507 cases/day
Transmission risk: Substantial

Today's results reflect 13129 new PCR test results

Vaccinations

Allegheny County daily vaccines stay around 381 1st+2nd doses, 257 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:
None

PA-wide hospital census: Using 16667 med/surg beds, 332 more than last week, 51 more than 2 weeks ago.

Statewide covid+ hospitalizations jumped a bit today, have to see what happens.

Variants

CDC estimates BA.2.12.1 at 28%, still growing well but a little more slowly than BA.2 did; dominant in NY now. Cases in NY have been growing fairly slowly despite that shift - one suspects would be dropping otherwise. Cases & wastewater in MA trending down (but w/out as much 12)