Daily infections rising in 35 states, hospitalizations up in half the country

[struggle4progress]

By Eyewitness News
Thursday, November 25, 2021 1:09PM

... The CDC now predicts the U.S. death toll will surpass 800,000 before Christmas.

"We have a half dozen ICU patients that are waiting for beds and don't have beds for them yet," UMass Memorial Health's Dr. Eric Dickson said ...

https://abc7ny.com/covid-daily-infections-rising-hospitalizations-increasing-hospitals-overwhelmed/11270062/

[Skittles]

1. it will go way up after Thanksgiving

people won't do what is needed to stop a pandemic

[SoCalDavidS]

9. No Respite Until Late January

I expect a slightly less dramatic surge than last year, but there will be a surge from the current High level, nonetheless.

[spinbaby]

23. Too many unvaccinated getting together

The unvaccinated in our family were going to get together for their own Thanksgiving after I made it plain I didn’t want them here. That fell through because half of them came down with covid before Thanksgiving.

[Septua]

28. Any of them have anti-vaxx regrets now...

..that you know of?

[spinbaby]

29. Haven't talked to them

I expect that, if they get mild cases, it will “prove” covid is no big deal.

[struggle4progress]

2. All 21 NJ counties have high transmission rates

Updated: Nov. 25, 2021, 11:58 a.m.
Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 11:58 a.m.
By Jackie Roman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

New Jersey on Thursday reported another 2,376 COVID-19 cases and 16 confirmed deaths, while statewide coronavirus hospitalizations were above 800 for the fourth straight day and all of the state’s 21 counties now qualified as having “high” rates of transmission.

The state’s seven-day average for new positive tests increased to 1,835, up 20% from a week ago and 58% from a month ago. That’s the highest average in nearly two months ...

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/11/nj-reports-2376-covid-cases-16-deaths-all-21-counties-now-have-high-transmission-rates.html

[struggle4progress]

3. Military to help Michigan cope with surge

25 Nov 2021
Associated Press | By DAVID EGGERT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The federal government will send 44 military medical staffers to Michigan to help beleaguered hospitals treat COVID-19 patients amid a fourth surge that is the worst in the country, state health officials said Wednesday ...

More than 4,100 people were hospitalized with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases as of Wednesday. The 3,900 hospitalized adults with confirmed infections was 87% more than a month ago and about 94% of the state's record high, which was set in April ...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/11/25/military-help-michigan-cope-covid-19-patient-surge.html

[struggle4progress]

4. NM hospitalizations double that of 2 months ago

BY DAN MCKAY / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH, 2021 AT 4:49PM
UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH, 2021 AT 11:04PM

SANTA FE – Hospitalizations for COVID-19 continued to rise as New Mexico headed into Thanksgiving, reaching 648 patients Wednesday ...

The state Department of Health also reported 1,409 new cases and 21 deaths, bringing the statewide death toll to 5,310.

Eight of the 21 deaths announced Wednesday were from Bernalillo County, including a male under 20 years old ...

Seven hospitals have activated crisis standards of care, a move that can allow the rationing of care when demand exceeds the supply of beds and available staff ...

https://www.abqjournal.com/2449257/covid-hospitalizations-in-nm-hit-11-month-peak.html

[struggle4progress]

5. New record high in New Hampshire

Updated: 5:29 PM EST Nov 24, 2021
Kirk Enstrom
Digital Managing Editor

MANCHESTER, N.H. — COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in New Hampshire reached new highs Wednesday, with active cases exceeding 8,000 for the first time in the pandemic.

State health officials said there are 8,048 active COVID-19 cases in New Hampshire, an all-time high. There were 1,011 new positive tests results Tuesday, the sixth time in eight days that more than 1,000 new cases were reported.

Current COVID-19 hospitalizations rose to 367, the most in New Hampshire since the beginning of the pandemic ...

https://www.wmur.com/article/covid-19-cases-hospitalizations-hit-new-record-high-in-new-hampshire/38347324#

[RKP5637]

6. The gov. of Florida must be very pleased, he apparently wants lots of people to die of COVID-19. n/t

[DENVERPOPS]

19. Not only Fla

But in a large number of other Red states, including TEXAS.........

[RKP5637]

25. It is just so amazing, a total WTF. n/t

[monkeyman1]

35. might want to throw Arkansas in the mix now !

[SoCalDavidS]

7. 1 Million By July 15, 2022

That is my educated prediction.

[LiberalArkie]

17. I think the middle of January.

Thanksgiving incubation next week followed by Christmas and New Years.

[SoCalDavidS]

18. 7 Weeks?

That’s an average of 4,000 deaths per day. No way we average that high.

[LiberalArkie]

21. Yea, not deaths. I was thinking of new covid cases.

[struggle4progress]

8. Weekly cases in Massachusetts surpass spring surge

Updated: Nov. 24, 2021, 5:28 p.m.
Published: Nov. 24, 2021, 5:28 p.m.

By Benjamin Kail | [e-mail]

New COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and the test positivity rate rose again across Massachusetts on Wednesday, with state officials reporting 2,978 newly confirmed positive tests, 764 hospitalizations and 18 new deaths linked to the virus.

At least 841,972 Massachusetts residents have now contracted the virus over the course of the pandemic, and 18,915 have died, according to the state Department of Health. Massachusetts’ latest average of about 2,800 cases per day — part of a wave of increases in New England and throughout the U.S. — amounts to an 81% bump over the last two weeks ...

https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2021/11/weekly-covid-cases-in-massachusetts-surpass-spring-surge-as-infections-hospitalizations-climb.html

[TheRickles]

32. And yet there's been no surge in total deaths, regardless of cause.

About average for this time of year. Go to "Choose jurisdiction" in this CDC chart (below), and see how each state does on week-by-week figures. MA is holding steady, as are most states, actually. So these new cases aren't (yet) turning into deaths - perhaps they're milder, or perhaps the definition of "case" being used is a positive test, regardless of symptom status. Hard to sort things out among the welter of numbers being circulated.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

[NickB79]

33. Deaths typically lag surges by 4-6 weeks

It takes time to go from infection to ICU to ventilator to casket.

[TheRickles]

36. True, but MA isn't fitting that pattern.

The spring surge in cases doesn't precede a rise in deaths, and the highest rate of cases (early Jan) coincides with, rather than precedes, the highest rates of deaths (comparing strugge4progress's chart to the CDC's).

[struggle4progress]

10. Michigan adds 17,003 cases, 280 deaths over two days

Sarah Rahal
The Detroit News

... Michigan broke the weekly record of new cases last week, setting a seven-day total of 53,575 — a new high not seen through the entirety of the coronavirus pandemic.

Weekly caseloads have escalated throughout the month. From Nov. 8-13, the state added 31,072 cases and 293 deaths from the virus, an increase from the first week of November, when the state added 29,171 cases and 292 deaths ...

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/11/24/michigan-adds-17-003-cases-280-deaths-covid-19-over-two-days/8734691002/

[struggle4progress]

11. Utah hospitals ''bursting at the seams'

By Scott D. Pierce
Nov. 24, 2021, 3:37 p.m.
Updated: 3:38 p.m.

... about 80% of Utahns who are dying from COVID-19 “have chosen not to be vaccinated.” The other 20% are fully vaccinated and have breakthrough infections.

Webb noted that patients with breakthrough infections “have, on average, at least four or more different chronic medical conditions like asthma or emphysema, diabetes, obesity, heart disease. And a significant number of them have immune systems that are compromised.”

About a fifth of those who die from breakthrough infections — about 4% of total deaths — “are immunocompromised patients who can’t respond well to the vaccine.”

“We really need people to understand their risk and their risk factors” ...

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/11/24/utah-hospitals-bursting/

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Illinois Is A Mixed Bag

I just looked at the IDPH Restore Illinois site yesterday.
7 of the 11 regions still have 20% or more ICU beds available. 3 were under 20% but more than 15.
One region was under 10%, but flattening.
No region had a positivity rate over 4%, but none were under 2.
Regions were about split evenly between rising & falling cases.
The state as a whole is rising, but less steeply than in the other bad spikes.
On Edit: Worldometer is showing US deaths already at 798,520. Daily deaths smooth to around 1,800 each day.
I wonder if there's a typo in the snip, because this rate takes the country over 850,000.
800,00 appears already a certainty, long before Christmas.

[struggle4progress]

13. OH: over 500 hospitalizations for first time in months

LOCAL NEWS
By Kristen Spicker
Nov 23, 2021

For the first time since the winter surge, Ohio reported more than 500 daily COVID-19 hospitalizations.

In the last day, the state recorded 567 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health. Ohio hasn’t reported more than 500 hospitalizations in a day since January. In the last three weeks, the state is averaging 220 hospitalizations a day.

As cases and hospitalizations continue to increase ahead of the winter holidays, health officials are urging Ohioans to get vaccinated ...

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-records-more-than-500-covid-hospitalizations-for-first-time-in-months/V7YUVRKBAFCXVAGG7BDK7BHAPU/

[Tomconroy]

14. Dr. Faucci thinks it will be endemic by spring.

[SoCalDavidS]

20. Dr Fauci Says It COULD Be

That’s assuming we do all the right things, and there is ZERO chance of Americans doing what is necessary.

He is a supreme optimist about how Americans will behave. I know better.

[Tomconroy]

22. When he said it last summer he didn't even know about

The pills one of which has already been approved for use in the UK. while our FDA twiddles its thumbs.

[beaglelover]

24. Yes the pills will be the game changer IMO.

Our path to getting back no normal with no masks or distancing. Can’t wait!

[Tomconroy]

26. I read one article that said that one had proven 100 percent

Effective in preventing death no matter when given.

[beaglelover]

27. That will be an awesome result if true!

Let’s hope!!

[struggle4progress]

15. Iowa hospitalizations up

Posted: Nov 24, 2021 / 11:54 AM CST
Updated: Nov 24, 2021 / 11:54 AM CST

... According to the data released Wednesday morning from the Iowa Department of Public Health, there are 623 Iowans currently hospitalized with COVID-19. Of those patients, 146 are in the ICU.

Those numbers are both up over the last report on Monday when 579 COVID-19 patients were reported hospitalized. At that time, 134 of those patients were in intensive care ...

https://who13.com/news/coronavirus/iowa-impacts/iowa-covid-19-hospitalizations-up-by-44-since-monday/

[struggle4progress]

16. Fewer than 700 beds available in Colorado

Author: Wilson Beese (9NEWS)
Published: 10:39 AM MST November 24, 2021
Updated: 6:12 PM MST November 24, 2021

DENVER — Officials with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) said hospital capacity remains a large concern during an update Wednesday on the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday ...

https://www.9news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/colorado-covid-cases-hospitaliztions-deaths-vaccination-update-thanksgiving/73-aca42318-6674-456b-ae38-7736252af101

[relayerbob]

30. It will be 800k in about three days

Currently at 798k, 1500+ per day, except on weekends and holidays, when the numbers aren't released

[Septua]

31. I would rant on...

..but it would be old rant. You can't fix stupid or ignorance or antipathy.

[FloridaBlues]

34. Large pockets of un vaxed people will do it every time.

People are getting boosters and first time people as well but not enough soon enough. Close to million per day over past several weeks.

[Cha]

37. Gee I wonder why?