NY Times: How cases, hospitalizations and deaths are trending

[TomCADem]

You have to scroll down a bit, but the state by state graphs comparing how States are doing now compared to how they did last year at their peak is really informative, and also shows the impact of vaccination. While a lot of focus has been placed on "breakthrough" cases, what is not discussed is the impact of vaccination on hospitalization rates. For example, Alabama, Lousiana and Mississippi have some of the worst vaccination rates among states. While its new cases per capita are not among the worst in the Nation, their recent hospitalization and death rates are worse then last year.

Conversely, Connecticut and New York have high vaccinations rates, but while its news cases have gone way up to to omicron, its hospitalization and death rates are below what they were a year before.

Unfortunately, on a macro level, the message that is going out is that Omicon is less deadly the prior strains even though it is more contagious, but this is not necessarily true. Omicron could be just as deadly as prior strains for the unvaccinated.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

Each chart shows how these three metrics compare to the corresponding peak level reached nationwide last winter. For example, a state’s case line exceeds 100 percent on the chart when its number of cases per capita exceeds the highest number of U.S. cases per capita reached in January 2021.

[SheltieLover]

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