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Question.....
Are these numbers represetative of Current, or Cummulative Hospitalizations????
These are cummulative as far as I can discern. For example, Utah reported 90 hospitalizations, but their bar chart showing daily hospitalizations over time suggested many more. Then I realized that the chart showed the number of people hospitalized on any given day and, obviously, people spent more than one day in the hospital.
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
According to the state health dept. websites, New Jersey, Utah, Virginia, and Washington are reporting only hospitalized cases (UT and WA) or hospitalizations supplemented with limited testing of other groups such as identified clusters (NJ and VA). Many other states appear to be doing the same. Some states seem to have stopped providing data entirely, except what the CDC gets for their weekly report. The silence is deafening. It seems that once Wisconsin topped 3,000 confirmed cases, for example, no additional statewide data were made available. Below are a few updates. I added Vermont since they stated on their website that there were no hospitalizations, but the case count from their site is old.
California - 77
Colorado - 22
Connecticut - 28
Indiana - 13
Maine - 4
Massachusetts - 80
Minnesota - 69
New Hampshire - 3
New York - 730*
North Dakota -1
Oklahoma - 4
Oregon - 16
Utah - 129
Vermont - 0
Washington - 50
West Virginia - 1
*New York hospitalizations are for NYC and Onondaga County only
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Arizona - 87
California - 99
Colorado - 22
Connecticut - 28
Delaware - 9
Hawaii - 1*
Indiana - 26
Maine - 7
Massachusetts - 99
Minnesota - 111
Montana - 4
New Hampshire - 10
New York - 824**
North Dakota -1
Oklahoma - 4
Oregon - 16
Rhode Island - 23
Utah - 129
Vermont - 0
Washington - 53
West Virginia - 4
Total - 1,557
*Hawaii reported on their website that one out-of-state individual was hospitalized but did not give a total for the state.
*New York hospitalizations are for NYC and Onondaga County only
This total does not include hospitalizations in states representing well over half of the reported cases. On 6/16 the CDC reported 1,621 total hospitalizations through 6/11. My guess is that when we get the number through 6/17, it will be over 3,000. The slope of the line seems to keep increasing.
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
I think we should track hospitalizations for several cities or counties
over time separately. Always give hospitalizations and times.
So we get many regional charts.
Adding them up is problematic because different regions are
included at a given time. We can calculate the expected total number
when we have many regions.
Do we see the same curves for hospitalizations in different regions ?
Are they going down alrady in some regions ?
uhh, and that without ILI
have they changed the hospitalization strategy or are
hospitalizations really increasing ?
I'm not sure. This is a link to a chart of ILI from ER visits and hospital admissions. It looks like the 803 number is hospital admissions, but it is difficult to get an accurate count from the chart.
influenza-associated hospitalizations are a reportable condition in Utah (UDOH)
The new swine flu’s symptoms are similar to those of other flu types. So, the Department of Health says these cases become reportable only when test results confirm the illness is due to the new virus. One exception is an outbreak of influenza-like illness in institutional settings such as nursing homes — already reportable even without specific testing.
State health officials are working with the Washington State Hospital Association, which supports the rule because it will help the state track this new strain of swine flu. One goal is to assure that reporting is required for only as long as necessary to confirm that this influenza strain is no stronger than the common flu.
I'm having to really scour local news stories and have identified a number of states with a few hospitalizations reported locally. Italicized entries represent partial or unofficial data. Bold entries represent data from state health department websites or reports.
AZ - 87
CA - 99
CO - 22
CT - 28
DE - 12 FL - 25
GA - 2
HI - 1
IL - 1 IN - 26
ME - 7 MD - 1 MA - 99 MI - 5 MN - 111
MO - 4
NH - 10 NY - 826
NC - 2 ND - 1
OK - 4
OR - 16 PA - 1 RI - 23
SD - 0
UT - 129
VT - 0
WA - 53
WV - 4 WI - 3
TOTAL 1,602
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The data posted on most of the state health department sites appears to be getting less and less current. Only West Virginia states that updates will be done more than once weekly and their's is the only hospitalization case count that changed since Friday - up 1 from 4 to 5.
Data on a number of the sites is well over a week old. For example, Washington state stopped reporting cases and is only reporting hospitalizations, and yet their most current number is dated June 13th. I'm not convinced that this is simply a function of managing the workload.
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Nice work digging up those numbers, I see we are close to the CDC estimate but still missing a ton of state figures.
I found this little gem from may 5th which states that the CDC had hospitalization details on only 399 of the 642 confirmed cases. It appears as if they only get hospitalization details on roughly 60% of their confirmed cases.
"Hospitalization status was known for 399 of the cases and amounted to 36 in the series (it has since increased). While this 9% prevalence is high, it is likely that more serious cases were preferentially tested, so we have yet to get a good fix on the severity of illness caused by this virus. Sufficient information on 22 hospitalized patients showed that 12, or about half, had underlying medical conditions that might have increased risk, but half did not, that is, they were previously healthy individuals, many of them young. There were 11 cases of pneumonia among the hospitalized. 8 wound up in intensive care, 4 had respiratory failure and 2 died."
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