Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-08-10

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 2042 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are +26 to 207
ICUs stay at 19 (71% full)
7 day avg drops to 292 cases/day
Transmission risk: High
CDC Community level: Ehh (*)

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 20626 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are +37 to 1301
ICUs are +5 to 131 (78% full)
7 day avg to 2902 cases/day
Transmission risk: High

Commentary

The CDC community level state is uncertain. The official view updates tomorrow. We're likely in Medium from hospital admissions but that data hasn't updated.

Vaccinations

Allegheny County daily vaccines move to 411 1st+2nd doses, 183 booster doses/day (5 day lagged 7 day avg)

Fully vaccinated %s:

Allegheny County: 70%, 52.5% of those are boosted, 21.2% of boosted got 4th dose.

10.9% of Allegheny County kids 6mo-4 have started vaccination.

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid:
Venago (2 +covid pts in ICU)
Clearfield (1)

PA-wide hospital census: Using 17548 med/surg beds, 175 more than last week, 185 more than 2 weeks ago.