Maybe your neck of the woods is different from mine: In mine, while case surges get plenty of reporting early on, it’s the hospitalizations that really drive the reporting when they go high.
Hospitalizations with Covid are probably 4X higher now, because Omicron is more transmissible, everyone in the hospital with a broken leg gets Covid.
“On supplemental O2 / ventilator” should be THE ONLY Hospital metric reported.
If they aren’t reporting this, they are lying to you.