Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-10-05

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 1060 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are +4 to 155
ICUs are +1 to 16 (71% full)
7 day avg drops to 151 cases/day
Transmission risk: Substantial
CDC Community level: Low

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 12431 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are -21 to 1165
ICUs are -18 to 123 (78% full)
7 day avg drops to 1793 cases/day
Transmission risk: High

Commentary

Both Allegheny & Philadelphia counties have dropped to substantial while the state as a whole remains at high.

Seeing cases dropping consistently while hospitalizations appear to remain flat is interesting. Test positivity hasn't gone up in any meaningful way and daily tests are roughly flat. Could be bias in who's getting PCR'd or changes in age groups. Will have to dig.

Vaccinations

Vaccination data did not update this week; state is still not breaking out updated boosters. CDC total volume data hasn't updated yet this week - I'll try to tweet tomorrow when it does.

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid:
Bradford (3 +covid patients in ICU) York (4)

PA-wide hospital census: Using 17625 med/surg beds, 51 less than last week, 53 more than 2 weeks ago.