Peak numbers January surge vs August/September surge
Number of US COVID cases in hospitals – 1/14/2021 133,210, 8/31/2021 99,109
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-hospital
Number of US COVID cases in ICU – 1/12/2021 28,889, 9/7/2021 26,065
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-icu
Number of daily COVID deaths – 1/12/2021 4,460, 9/10/2021 4,275
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&facet=none&hideControls=true&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=New+per+day&Relative+to+Population=false&Align+outbreaks=false&country=OWID_WRL~USA
For this latest surge there is a higher percentage of hospitalized COVID patients in the ICU and there is a higher percentage of COVID ICU patients dying.
Better safe than sorry. WEAR A MASK – PLEASE
Scott Stantis
March 20, 2014
September 30, 2017
Peak numbers January surge vs August/September surge
Number of US COVID cases in hospitals – 1/14/2021 133,210, 8/31/2021 99,109
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-hospital
Number of US COVID cases in ICU – 1/12/2021 28,889, 9/7/2021 26,065
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-icu
Number of daily COVID deaths – 1/12/2021 4,460, 9/10/2021 4,275
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&facet=none&hideControls=true&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=New+per+day&Relative+to+Population=false&Align+outbreaks=false&country=OWID_WRL~USA
For this latest surge there is a higher percentage of hospitalized COVID patients in the ICU and there is a higher percentage of COVID ICU patients dying.
Better safe than sorry. WEAR A MASK – PLEASE