Coronavirus Thread

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March 30, 2024 was my last daily report on COVID-19 conditions in the US. Many states are not reporting and the number of cases are dropping at this time. I will continue to report the weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations as reported by the CDC.
This Pandemic resulted in nearly 112,000,000 cases reported and over 1,200,000 deaths since February 2020. It appears to have been reduced to a background illness that can still kill us.
I looked back at the early days of this thread. It is interesting to recall the confusion, anxiety, and mistakes of the first few weeks of the Pandemic as recorded here. I found that my first attempt at reporting Covid statistics was on March 25, 2020. I made daily reports for about 4 years. I hope this was useful to some others. It has been an anchor in be own life to watch and report the trends I saw.

The CDC has announced the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and more states have ended Covid-19 reporting. Since May 14, 2023, many states and territories have not reported results.

Report for April 20, 2024
New Hospital admissions for Covid-19 are reported by CDC as number of admissions per 100,000 of county population. Reported were 3209 counties (99%) with less than 10 new admissions per 100,000 (low risk area). There were 9 counties (0.28%) with less 10 to 19.9 new admissions per 100,000 (medium risk area). There were 2 counties (0.06%) with more than 20 new admissions per 100,000 (high risk area). The number of High risk counties were increased from 1 to 2. It appears from my local review of this data, rural hospitals that serve multiple counties may be over counted as the same number of cases are applied to all counties served by the hospital. This is shown on the CDC map detail as several counties in an area with identical number of new cases reported for each county. I have observed that the number of counties with medium and high risk has dropped in the last several weeks. The total number of Covid-19 hospital admissions decreased 14.4% for the week. The number of Covid-19 hospital admissions dropped 11 of the last 12 weeks.

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March 30, 2024 was my last daily report on COVID-19 conditions in the US. Many states are not reporting and the number of cases are dropping at this time. I will continue to report the weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations as reported by the CDC.
This Pandemic resulted in nearly 112,000,000 cases reported and over 1,200,000 deaths since February 2020. It appears to have been reduced to a background illness that can still kill us.
I looked back at the early days of this thread. It is interesting to recall the confusion, anxiety, and mistakes of the first few weeks of the Pandemic as recorded here. I found that my first attempt at reporting Covid statistics was on March 25, 2020. I made daily reports for about 4 years. I hope this was useful to some others. It has been an anchor in be own life to watch and report the trends I saw.

The CDC has announced the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and more states have ended Covid-19 reporting. Since May 14, 2023, many states and territories have not reported results.

Report for April 27, 2024
New Hospital admissions for Covid-19 are reported by CDC as number of admissions per 100,000 of county population. Reported were 3209 counties (99%) with less than 10 new admissions per 100,000 (low risk area). There were 12 counties (0.37%) with less 10 to 19.9 new admissions per 100,000 (medium risk area). There were 0 counties (0 %) with more than 20 new admissions per 100,000 (high risk area). The number of High risk counties were decreased from 2 to 0. It appears from my local review of this data, rural hospitals that serve multiple counties may be over counted as the same number of cases are applied to all counties served by the hospital. This is shown on the CDC map detail as several counties in an area with identical number of new cases reported for each county. I have observed that the number of counties with medium and high risk has dropped in the last several weeks. The total number of Covid-19 hospital admissions decreased 11.1% for the week. The number of Covid-19 hospital admissions dropped 12 of the last 13 weeks.

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From the CDC Covid-19 Data Tracker website:
"Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report COVID-19 hospital admissions, hospital capacity, or hospital occupancy data to HHS through CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)."

Unless I find other relevant national Covid-19 data, this will be my last report.

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