

Hospitalization numbers early in the pandemic are undercounts due to incomplete reporting by hospitals to the federal government. Dips and spikes could be due to inconsistent reporting by hospitals. Figures for Covid patients in hospitals and I.C.U.s are the most recent number of patients with Covid-19 who are hospitalized or in an intensive care unit on that day. The seven-day average is the average of the most recent seven days of data. Department of Health and Human Services (test positivity, hospitalizations, I.C.U.

About this data Sources: State and local health agencies (cases, deaths) U.S. The new tracker pages will be updated once weekly and will highlight hospitalizations, deaths and the C.D.C.’s county-level analysis of virus conditions, among other data.have become the most reliable source of information on the virus’s spread. Since few states report more than once a week (and some no longer report data to the public at all), the weekly data reports from the C.D.C.

