Total COVID-19 hospital admissions jumped by 12.1 percent in the past week, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), marking the highest jump in …

This week’s hospital admission rate follows last week’s rise of more than 10 percent. While this data suggests more infections, a metric the CDC does not track anymore, it remains unclear how concerned people should be.

Wow if only there was some sort of institution that should help us understand how concerned we should be.

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    While hospital admissions have risen by more than 10 percent in each of the past two weeks, the number of patients currently hospitalized has risen by a comparatively smaller degree.

    Oh okay so maybe it’s not that-

    Compared with last week, the number of patients hospitalized for COVID this week rose by 7 percent

    That’s not meaningfully lower!

    And of course it then goes on to say “well this is the new normal so we’ll have to get used to it”. Fucking 10% of people who get COVID get long covid to some extent, and it goes up to 16% in children. This really the normal libs want? 1/6th of kids needlessly disabled?

    Also the suspicion that summer surges are linked to people relaxing their precautions is just completely laughable since NOBODY IS TAKING ANY PRECAUTIONS AT ALL ANYMORE.