Allegheny County & Pennsylvania #covid hospitalization & variants thread for 2022-10-26

Allegheny County

Allegheny reports 838 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are +5 to 166
ICUs are -5 to 20 (71% full)
7 day avg stays around 135 cases/day
Transmission risk: Substantial
CDC Community level: Low

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania reports 9261 new cases over 7 days.
Hospitalizations are +16 to 1244
ICUs are +2 to 156 (79% full)
7 day avg wiggles slightly up to 1548 cases/day
Transmission risk: Substantial

Analysis

Wastewater trends over the last month suggest that the drop in cases is real, despite hospitalizations remaining relatively flat. (Note there's about 11 days of delay on WW data, but cases have their own delay).

Vaccinations

Vaccination data did not update yet this week.

Hospitalizations

PA counties with full ICU beds due to covid: None

PA-wide hospital census: Using 17918 med/surg beds, 205 more than last week, 416 more than 2 weeks ago.