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Although several states are getting slammed now (mostly those that didn't earlier), it's unlikely current hospitalization for covid-19 have hit an all-time high at the national level.
https://twitter.com/carlzimmer/status/1326317129172471813
https://twitter.com/carlzimmer/status/1326317129172471813
Correlation between current hospitalization levels and daily deaths at different lags.
Spearman
Ridge plot of hospitalization rates by state (helps show the effect of missing values)
Deaths by comparison
Per capita hospitalizations sorted by max death rate
Per capita deaths sorted by max death rate. Contrary to popular impression, there's just not much lag between hospitalization levels and death rates.
Scatted plots comparing per capita daily moving averages of hospitalization levels and deaths
IMO-This seasonally-linked resurgence is obviously much slower moving than the northeast's experience w/ the first wave and generally much more dispersed.
Some international perspective on this peak hospitalizations claim.
Covid-like illness trends by HHS region
Population weighted histogram of population-weighted hospitalization levels by state
From the horse's mouth.
https://covidtracking.com/about-data/faq#why-have-you-stopped-reporting-national-cumulative-hospitalizations-icu-and-ventilation-numbers-on-your-website
https://covidtracking.com/about-data/faq#why-have-you-stopped-reporting-national-cumulative-hospitalizations-icu-and-ventilation-numbers-on-your-website
