Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-10-12

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 1189 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are +28 to 183
ICUs are +5 to 21 (72% full)
7 day avg rises to 169 cases/day
Transmission risk: Substantial
CDC Community level: Low

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 13256 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are +18 to 1183
ICUs are +16 to 139 (79% full)
7 day avg rises to 1838 cases/day
Transmission risk: Substantial

Vaccinations

County now accounting for updated bivalent vaccine doses:

Allegheny County: 71.8% 2+ doses OG vaccine, 7.7% updated booster (7.7% of the population, not of the fully vaccinated. Compares to 4.8% statewide. Go Pittsburgh!)

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid:
Bradford County, with 1 +covid patient in ICU

PA-wide hospital census: Using 17862 med/surg beds, 237 more than last week, 186 more than 2 weeks ago.