Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-09-14

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 2034 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are -38 to 166
ICUs are -10 to 22 (72% full)
7 day avg rises to 291 cases/day
Transmission risk: High
CDC Community level: Low

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 17506 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are +71 to 1171
ICUs are -13 to 133 (78% full)
7 day avg rises to 2479 cases/day
Transmission risk: High

Vaccinations

Allegheny County daily vaccines move to 217 1st+2nd doses, 17 booster doses/day (5 day lagged 7 day avg) (I believe this is old boosters only.)

Fully vaccinated %s:

Allegheny County: 70.5%, 52.8% of those are boosted, 22% of boosted got 4th dose.

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid:

PA-wide hospital census: Using 17633 med/surg beds, 580 more than last week, 25 more than 2 weeks ago.

Overall, cases have been flat since a bit before Labor Day; last week's drop was likely just reporting noise. However, there's a modest drop in hospitalizations apparent over the last two weeks in Allegheny County that looks real.

We don't have data from the state or CDC on uptake of the updated bivalent covid boosters yet, so it's hard to speculate when we should start seeing an effect (if any) from those. Hopefully they'll get that available in a week or two.