Posted on 10/06/2023 1:46:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The decrease comes after a late summer coronavirus wave, but experts warn more could be ahead.
New COVID-19 hospitalizations have declined for the third week in a row following the late summer increase of coronavirus in the U.S.
Last week saw more than 18,100 new COVID-19 hospital admissions – a 6% decrease from the week prior – according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While it's clear that the late summer increase of COVID-19 has passed its peak, health officials warn that the months ahead are likely to bring another wave.
According to CDC’s respiratory disease outlook, the agency expects a “moderate” COVID-19 wave with about as many peak hospitalizations as last winter. Last winter’s COVID-19 hospitalizations peaked at about 44,500. While it’s a significant number, it is less than a third of the all-time peak in January 2022 of more than 150,600 weekly hospital admissions.
U.S. health agencies recently endorsed new COVID-19 shots that more closely align with circulating variants. The Biden administration is hoping Americans will not be dissuaded from getting the shot after recent insurance and availability issues arose. "Everyone should know there is a free COVID vaccine with your name on it," CDC Director Mandy Cohen said at an event in Boston this week. "Just call ahead and make sure the supply is there for you."
A recent poll suggested that uptake of this vaccine will be significantly higher than the last round of bivalent booster shots. Still, as has been the case with much of the pandemic, there is a stark political divide on the topic. Just 24% of Republicans said they plan to get the new shot, compared to 70% of Democrats, according to the poll.
Hey, CDC Director Mandy Cohen, you can take my FREE COVID VACCINE, with my name on it, and SHOVE IT RIGHT UP JOEY BIDEN’S ASS!!!
Must be terrible news that the latest “wave” turned out to be nothing more than a ripple.
“Experts...”
It is glaringly obvious that COVID in 2023 is very different from COVID in the Winter of 2020/2021.
Why this is so is an interesting question, but THAT it is so is beyond dispute.
I have treated >1000 hospitalized COVID patients, the last death was in November 2022 most of them now have the sniffles and are hospitalized for some other reason.
In contrast, we converted 48 floor beds to isolation/oxygen in 2020 to supplement our 20 ICU beds, two days before Christmas 2020 they were all full.
THAT won't be good for any upcoming elections, now will it? Where will the next round of "sudden deaths" come from?
I can see why the CDC is in panic mode.
I check worldometer daily for USA..at present number of cases and deaths are dropping slowly. Doesn’t look like a pandemic yet. Most likely the prevalent variant is not causing the historical amounts of cases or deaths.
Your personal experience reinforces that interpretation.
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