Capacity Level holds, as Hospitals Surveyed down a point. Hundreds of hospitals lost over winter holidays still gone.

Critical Staffing Level also holds—still resembling 2021 more than 2022.

ICU capacity level (not shown) remains at 72%—1½ pts above year ago.

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Hospitals Surveyed, Capacity & Critical Staffing Levels all hold.

PICU capacity level (not shown): 70%—~½ pt below year ago. Covid PICU: ~140 beds.

Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, we're seeing near 10K fewer beds than last May.

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Some 185 (-7) counties have pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%).

Of these, NONE are High "Level"—per CDC—while 184 (99½%) only rate LOW.

Full but Low.

Of 262 (+3) counties that report any PICU capacity, over one in five are full or near full.

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Counties by pediatric capacity—colored per CDC "Levels":

#1 🟢Coconino, AZ ≥150% (Low)
#2 🟢Aroostook, ME—144% (L)

Idaho—135%

#3 🟢Fairfax, VA—114% (L)

#4 🟢Nueces, TX—100% (L)
#5 🟢Ramsey, MN—100% (L)
#6 🟢Bonneville, ID—100% (L)
#7 🟢Collin, TX—100% (L)
#8 🟢Buncombe, NC—100% (L)
#9 🟢Potter, TX—100% (L)
#10 🟢Denton, TX—100% (L)

[Darkest counties on map tooted above.]

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Of 74 (+5) counties ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data, NONE are CDC High "Level"; NONE are Medium.

Reporting ≥ 90%—211 (-1).

For counties w/ ICUs—over one in six are full or near full.

Near hundred hospitals have stopped reporting. "Pretty dysfunctional", says Jha.

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Counties by adult capacity—colored per CDC "Levels":

#1 🟢Berkeley, SC ≥150% (Low)

#2 🟢Warren, NY—132% (L)
#3 🟢Charleston, SC—124% (L)
#4 🟢Wise, VA—120% (L)
#5 🟢Smyth, VA—116% (L)

#6 🟢Yuma, AZ—111% (L)
#7 🟢Boone, KY—111% (L)
#8 🟢Kenton, KY—109% (L)
#9 🟢Buchanan, MO—106% (L)
#10 🟢Mercer, ND—105% (L)

[Darkest counties on map tooted above.]

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CDC removes cumulative deaths from Data Tracker; in doing so, drops total death count by near 3K.

As a result, one-in-four excess deaths for "not covid" now at beginning, rather than middle, of April.

Preliminary data for excess deaths shows 4 weeks w/o excess.

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Having revised death counts down, U.S. avg share of G8 covid deaths down to 54.5% (-1½)—still near half again above U.S. share of G8 pop.

Share of G20 deaths down to 29.9% (-2.2): 4¼× share of G20 pop.

Global deaths at 29.0% (-2.1): 6⅘× share of global pop.

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After fifteen weeks, Kraken XBB.1.5 wave closes out, as CDC moves to biweekly reporting.

Near one third of all XBB.1.5 cases look to now be variants, whether or not CDC breaks them out.

Meanwhile, three in ten samples not descended from Kraken at all.

Soup.

[Srcs: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.rajnarayanan/viz/USAVariantDB/VariantDashboard]

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Biweekly, Arcturus outpaces prior weekly share in many regions. Hyperion recedes in interior; gains some elsewhere.

⟰ Arcturus XBB.1.16:
NY/NJ—18.1% (+5.4)
Mid-Atl—17.8% (+2½)
NW—15.6% (+.1)

⇓ Hyperion XBB.1.9.1:
L. Midwest—19.6% (-5.4)
Mtn/Dkts—12.0% (-1.9)

[See toot above for variants CDC map color key and links to sources for these two charts.]

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Absent tracking of #LongCovid, itself, we have mortality data on comorbidities of severe acute covid that are also implicated as post-acute sequelae of covid infection. ↺

Nonetheless, ongoing hospital staffing attrition also contributes to elevated death tolls.

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Covid is not done with us.