Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-08-31

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 2057 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are -2 to 210
ICUs are -2 to 19 (71% full)
7 day avg drops to 294 cases/day
Transmission risk: High
CDC Community level: Medium

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 18264 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are -31 to 1258
ICUs are +14 to 146 (79% full)
7 day avg drops to 2570 cases/day
Transmission risk: High

Vaccinations

Allegheny County daily vaccines move down to 337 1st+2nd doses, 154 booster doses/day (5 day lagged 7 day avg)

Fully vaccinated %s:

Allegheny County: 70.3%, 52.8% of those are boosted, 22% of boosted got 4th dose.

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid: Clearfield, with 1 +covid patient in the ICU

PA-wide hospital census: Using 17608 med/surg beds, 6 more than last week, 16 less than 2 weeks ago.

Commentary

It's interesting that apparent cases have been flat while hospitalizations have had a continuing slow increase. This could reflect that cases are growing but testing is lower (likely) or a creep in age. Regardless, it should motivate uptake of bivalent boosters next month.