COVID-19 hospitalizations in the US resurge, marked by different patterns
A US Army veteran with Covid-19 is treated by a medical worker in a negative pressure room in the Covid-19 ward at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare system campus and medical center in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on January Here we go again: COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers.
With an updated vaccine still months away, this summer bump in new hospitalizations might be concerning, but the number of patients is far lower than before.
A look at what we know: For the week ending July 29, COVID-19 hospital admissions were at 9,056. That's an increase of about 12% from the previous week. RELATED: Math and reading tests plummet to lowest scores in decades for middle schoolers But it's a far cry from past peaks, like the 44,000 weekly hospital admissions in early January, the nearly 45,000 in late July 2022, or the 150,000 admissions during the omicron surge of January 2022.
The World Health Organization declared Friday that the COVID-19 emergency is officially over, but what does that mean? Dr. William Schaffner with Vanderbilt University joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow to explain. "It is ticking up a little bit, but it’s not something that we need to raise any alarm bells over," said Dr.
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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