COVID hospitalizations rose in the U.S. for the seventh consecutive week, but new dats shows the booster could help, offering protection against circulating variants.
Hospitalizations increased 15.7% for the week ending Aug. 26 from 15,050 to 17,418, according toThese are similar to levels seen in late March of this year and it marks the seventh consecutive week that hospitalizations have increased.However, hospitalizations remain relatively low compared to other points during the pandemic. During the peak of omicron, the week of Jan. 15, 2022, there were 150,674 hospitalizations.
Dr. Cameron Wolfe, a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Duke University School of Medicine, said there has been an uptick at his hospital -- 50 to 60 COVID patients compared to 20 to 30 earlier in the summer -- but there are fewer people who are in the intensive care unit compared to years prior.
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