According to CDC data, for the week ending on September 9, there were a total of 20,538 new COVID-19 hospitalizations, an increase of 7.7 percent.
Amid ongoing concerns of new COVID-19 cases rising and the possible return of widespread mask mandates, a map shows where COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising the most.in COVID-19 cases following the discovery of a new variant, BA.2.86, as well as the relaxation of precautions such as mask mandates and vaccine requirements.
"While hospitalizations are increasing, the current levels are still far lower than what was seen in 2022 during the summer peak, when there was an average of 1,287 COVID patients hospitalized each day," officials with theDr. Luis Ostrosky, the chief of infectious diseases for UT Health and Memorial Hermann in Houston, Texas, said last month that"COVID is definitely out in the community.
"In the hospitals, we're starting to see more people coming to the ER with COVID, more people coming to our outpatient clinics with COVID," he added, KRIV News reported. An empty bed where a patient with COVID-19 died earlier in the day waits to be filled with a new patient in the ICU at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 18, 2022. On September 19, 2023, an updated map from the CDC shows where COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising the most.
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