U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations are now rising in 37 of 50 states, including several with above-average vaccination rates.
Meanwhile, COVID cases are again starting to climb in nearly half of the other 13 states, signaling that hospitalizations may soon follow. Among them is Florida, where cases bottomed out after a deadly summer outbreak but have increased 29 percent over the last two weeks.
These sobering figures underscore the fact that many Americans remain vulnerable to the still-surging Delta variant as the holiday season ramps up and Delta’s heavily mutated andNationally, the number of Americans now hospitalized for COVID — nearly 65,000 — is higher than it’s been in two months. An average of 120,000 Americans are testing positive for COVID each day; nearly 1,300 are dying. And all three metrics are heading in the wrong direction. The troubling trajectory of the U.S.
Heading into winter, experts hoped that naturally acquired immunity from earlier waves of infection and a full vaccination rate of 60 percent across the entire population would provide sufficient protection to prevent a repeat of the last holiday season, when cooling weather and indoor celebrations triggered America’s most devastating wave to date.
To some degree, vaccination has provided the hoped-for protection. While hospitalizations are currently rising in 14 of the 17 states with the highest full vaccination rates, most of the same states — including New York, Rhode Island, Washington, D.C., Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, Vermont and California — still have fewer people in the hospital, per capita, than the national average, and none are recording more deaths than they were at last winter’s peak.
The problem is that the story is different in some places with lower vaccine uptake, or with older populations whose earlier vaccine protection may be wearing off., where just 55 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, the hospitalization rate is now higher than anywhere else in the country — and higher than at any previous point in the pandemic. Average daily deaths are as high as they were last Christmas.
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