Daily News | COVID cases climbed in Pa. and N.J. in the wake of Thanksgiving
The Philadelphia region has seen increases in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the two weeks after Thanksgiving, local and national health data showed.after holiday gatherings earlier in the pandemic, but at a far smaller scale. Nationally, cases increased 28% and hospitalizations 29% over the past two weeks. But in total numbers, far fewer people are suffering from COVID than in the early December timeframe in prior years.
the nation reported more than 119,000 daily cases, and more than 204,000 cases in Dec. 2020. But today’s publicly reported test results likely reflect a significant undercount, as more people are testing for COVID using home tests, which are rarely reported to public health agencies, or not testing at all.
Average daily deaths have declined by 10% over the past two weeks to about 287 per day. That compares to an average of 1,263 people dying daily at this time a year ago“There is a lot of infection,” Cheryl Bettigole, the Philadelphia Health Commissioner, said in an interview Wednesday. “Not a huge amount of hospitalizations. Not huge numbers of deaths.”
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