Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-05-11

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 2254 new cases for the week
Hospitalizations are -13 to 106 from last week
ICUs are +0 to 16 (71% full)
7 day avg rises to 363 cases/day
Transmission risk: High
CDC Community level: Medium

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 18196 new cases for the week
Hospitalizations are +30 to 855 from last week
ICUs are -4 to 94 (77% full)
7 day avg rises to 2945 cases/day
Transmission risk: High

Vaccinations

Alleghey County daily vaccines at 320 1st+2nd doses, 206 booster doses/day (5 day lagged 7 day avg)

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid: None

PA-wide hospital census: Using 16605 med/surg beds, 39 less than last week, 62 less than 2 weeks ago.

Commentary

Last couple of days have seen a faster increase in cases in both county and state. Likely BA.2.12.1, which CDC estimates is now 42.6% nationally but 48% in our region (for 5/7, so higher now).

Allegheny slipping into CDC's "Medium" community level (which is already much more loose than the old "high" transmission level), is a good reminder for people & organizations to check in on their thresholds for things like masking and moving activities outside.