Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-08-17

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 2577 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are -1 to 206
ICUs are +3 to 22 (72% full)
7 day avg rises to 411 cases/day
Transmission risk: High
CDC Community level: Med-High

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 18117 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are -45 to 1256
ICUs are -15 to 146 (79% full)
7 day avg rises to 2995 cases/day
Transmission risk: High

Vaccinations

Allegheny County daily vaccines move to 453 1st+2nd doses, 196 booster doses/day (5 day lagged 7 day avg)

Fully vaccinated %s:

Allegheny County: 70.1%, 52.6% of those are boosted, 21.5% of boosted got 4th dose.

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid: None

PA-wide hospital census: Using 17165 med/surg beds, 151 less than last week, 79 more than 2 weeks ago.
(Still a somewhat elevated number.)