Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-06-15

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 1998 new cases over the week.
Hospitalizations are -5 to 163
ICUs are +2 to 17 (71% full)
7 day avg drops to 281 cases/day
Transmission risk: High
CDC Community level: Medium

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 17606 new cases.
Hospitalizations are +12 to 1097
ICUs are -3 to 109 (78% full)
7 day avg drops to 2458 cases/day
Transmission risk: High

Discussion

Cases are coming down well in Allegheny County. Handwavy, but hospitalizations appear to be dropping about as expected given the 1-2 week lag we typically see.

Vaccinations

Allegheny County daily vaccines stay around 296 1st+2nd doses, 279 booster doses/day (5 day lagged 7 day avg)

Fully vaccinated %s:

Allegheny County: 69.1%, 51.4% of those are boosted, 15.8% of boosted got 4th dose.

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid: None

PA-wide hospital census: Using 16876 med/surg beds, 98 less than last week, 28 more than 2 weeks ago. Fairly stable. Would be good for everyone to reduce # of covid+ patients.