Thread by @juddslivka

Today's AZ COVID #s:
Cases: +39% over previous 7-day average
Daily Pos: 25.5% (5th straight it's up)
Simple death rate: 2.15% (down but see next)
Tests reported yesterday: 15,148 (6th/7 days with 15k+ tests)
+4% in inpatient cases
+1% in ER cases
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More COVID numbers:
Slight improvement (~1%) in ICU and inpatient bed capacity
Slight decline (~1%) in ER bed capacity
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Highest cases by ZIP:
1. 85364 (Yuma west of the airport)
2. 85350 (south of Yuma)
3. 85009 (Phx from Thomas to Salt River/43rd Ave.-19th Ave.)
4. 85033 (Maryvale)
5. 85035 (Thomas to I-10/83rd Ave. to 43rd Ave.)
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Takeaways:
Upward trend continues in all KPIs.

The "good news" about inpatient drops Friday was either from non-reporting or the result of triaging patients out.

ZIP analysis shows concentrations tend to be adjacent.

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Here's @azdhs hospital surveillance data. The last downward week was 5/10.
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Couple other things:
1) Discharges of COVID patients are up, which is good.

DHS doesn't collect data on average hospital stay, but there is some data out of Texas that says 32 days is the average stay.

So there's a chance you're seeing last month's cases.
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2) More reporting needs to be done on whether the drop in COVID ER patients is because of fewer acute patients or just fewer patients.

3) 85350 ZIP is Somerton (h/t @TVGenius)