We have our MMWR 38 update in from the CDC, and my Covid Indicator Trend Index has been updated from that. All 4 indicators: CDC Viral Testing/PCR by collection date (20% each), Covid Like Illness (CLI, symptomatic ER visits) and hospitalizations per 100,000 (30%) went DOWN.
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To be transparent, we're seeing significant rise in HHS region 8 (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY). We saw a definitive jump in positive percentages last week, a small increase in CLI and an uptick in hospitalizations. Every other region looks good.
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Here are the CDC viral surveillance... labs reporting to the CDC and specifically the HHS PCR testing dataset by collection/test date
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And here are CLI by region as well as hospitalizations by region, measured by total hospitalized with Covid-19 per 100,000 people
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Correction, this is per 1 million people as displayed in the graph. A few measures I track have it per 100,000 and some are per 1 million so I sometimes forget which is which (ha ha)
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