Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-09-28

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 1431 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are -20 to 151
ICUs are -19 to 15 (71% full)
7 day avg drops to 205 cases/day
Transmission risk: High
CDC Community level: Low

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 15205 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are +40 to 1186
ICUs are +3 to 141 (79% full)
7 day avg drops to 2148 cases/day
Transmission risk: High

Vaccinations

Allegheny County daily vaccines move to 210 1st+2nd doses, 25 booster doses/day (5 day lagged 7 day avg) (Pretty sure this does not count updated boosters)

Fully vaccinated %s:

Allegheny County: 70.6%, 52.7% of those are boosted, 22% of boosted got 4th dose.

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid:
Clearfield (1 +covid patient in ICU) Bradford (3)

PA-wide hospital census: Using 17676 med/surg beds, 104 more than last week, 43 more than 2 weeks ago.

It's worth noting that our total hospitalization use has been fairly high for several months now. That's probably not good considering that we've lost a substantial fraction of our healthcare workforce.

It's a good time for flu shots, which also help reduce hospitalizations.