COVID circumstances and hospitalizations have seen a big uptick within the District and nationally since mid-June, based on wastewater knowledge from Biobot Analytics and the CDC’s hospitalizations tracker.
In D.C., hospitalizations have risen by 29% between June and July, based on evaluation by Axios’ Alex Fitzpatrick and Kavya Beheraj. They reported a 39% soar in hospitalizations throughout the identical time interval in Maryland, and a 15% improve in Virginia. Nationally, hospitalizations have gone up 17%.
Nonetheless, throughout the nation and domestically, COVID circumstances and hospitalizations stay nowhere close to as excessive as they have been throughout the pandemic’s peak. Throughout January 2022, D.C. noticed some days the place over 90 folks went to the hospital for COVID; in current weeks, regardless of the uptick, day by day hospital admissions within the District have remained within the single digits, based on CDC knowledge.
One other variant, EG.5, has made up a lot of the new COVID circumstances nationally, although specialists say it’s not essentially driving the surge in circumstances and hospitalizations.
The Washington Put up reported final week {that a} new booster ought to change into accessible by the top of September. Whereas it’s not particularly designed to focus on EG.5, it would provideimportant safety in opposition to the virus’s unfold going into the autumn, when extra folks will collect inside and different respiratory diseases, just like the flu, will begin to hit exhausting as nicely.
Sporting masks, particularly in crowded indoor settings, and staying house when you really feel sick stay good methods to guard your self and others from the unfold of COVID.
