Hospitalization rates for Covid dropped steadily in USA over past month, Deaths have been flat

Deaths and hospitalization rates are the two measures available to the US public to best assess Covid extent and severity.
Hospitalization rates are definitely down; see CDC’s graph below.  Mortality rates have held steady at 1000/day for the whole of the past month.
I have no data on how treatment patterns have changed over time in the US, except that ventilator use for Covid is uncommon now.


US hospitalization rates for Covid are now half what they were during the second peak in July.
Per CDC: Weekly hospitalization rates among all ages first peaked during the week ending April 18 (MMWR week 16) at 10.1 per 100,000 population, followed by a second peak during the week ending July 18 (MMWR week 29) at 8.0 per 100,000 population. Data for the most recent weeks may change as additional admissions occurring during those weeks are reported.


Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations

Similar Posts

Alabama Hospital Defies Biden Administration, Ends COVID Vaccine Requirement for Staff [despite $400 incentive)/Western Journal

https://www.westernjournal.com/alabama-hospital-defies-biden-administration-ends-covid-vaccine-requirement-staff/ Bowing to the threat of legal action against it, one Alabama hospital has rescinded its requirement that all staff be vaccinated against the coronavirus. UAB Hospital in Birmingham said it will wait to learn how the federal vaccine mandates announced by President Joe Biden play out before imposing any requirement, according to WBRC-TV. Last week,…

Nature Medicine publishes Scottish study in which unvaccinated pregnant women had worse outcomes when they got COVID than vaccinated women. The authors did not study the 95% of pregnant women without COVID to see what their outcomes were, although they had access to these data.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01666-2 The issue is not whether there is some vaccine efficacy for the first two shots, especially with the early variants—there is some efficacy.  The vaccines provided good protection briefly, which lasted longer the younger you were, which began falling within weeks of vaccination. Unvaccinated pregnant women in this study from Scotland had more severe…

Ireland finally paying benefits for 2009 swine flu vaccine-caused narcolepsy cases

€1.2m for girl diagnosed with narcolepsy after swine flu jab  FRI, 07 MAY, 2021 – 15:33 ANN O’LOUGHLIN A mediator in the High Court action of a 16-year-old girl who sued claiming she developed a rare sleep disorder after receiving a swine flu jab has recommended a €1.28m award in her case. The teenager, who…

How a false hydroxychloroquine narrative was created, and more

It is remarkable that a large series of events taking place over the past months produced a unified message about hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), and produced similar policies about the drug in the US, Canada, Australia, NZ and western Europe.  The message is that generic, inexpensive hydroxychloroquine (costing only $1.00 to produce a full course) is dangerous and should not…

Protecting yourself from Covid-19/ Nass’ recommendations

The new coronavirus spreads readily, like flu or cold viruses, but is much more likely to affect family members of someone already infected than others.  We Americans are not very good at protecting ourselves from cold and flu viruses.  Maybe we can learn some strategies that will help us avoid Covid-19, as well as helping…

Transparency International Issues Corruption Index Before UN and World Bank meetings on Corruption/ HuffPo

The following story describes this year’s publication of the famed Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International. This annual country metric gets widely discussed. The new index shows that most governments (2/3) “show very high levels of corruption.”  Corruption is criminal, it keeps the criminals in power, it leaves little room for meaningful change and advancement…