12 Worst States for Adult COVID-19 Hospitalization Increases Now

12 Worst States for Adult COVID-19 Hospitalization Increases Now

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COVID-19 looked as if it might be fading away in June, and then it flared up in July.

Hospitals told the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that they admitted an average of 7,217 adults with confirmed cases of COVID-19 per week in July, up 9.5% from the average in June, according to the latest HHS COVID-19 hospitalization data.

August is getting off to a bad start: Hospitals admitted 10,182 adults with confirmed COVID-19 during the week ending Aug. 5.

COVID-19 admissions have increased by 62% since the week ending June 30, which was the best week since August 2020, when public health officials developed the current hospitalization tracking strategy.

For a look at the 12 states with the biggest adult COVID-19 hospital admissions increases between June and July, see the gallery above. For numbers for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, see the table below.

What It Means

The federal COVID-19 public health emergency has expired, and HHS and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have stopped tracking many streams of COVID-19 data.

The total number of hospitalizations and deaths is much lower than it was in 2020 and 2021. But the virus that causes COVID-19 is still out there, and it continues to add uncertainty to any financial plan that depends on estimates of a client’s life expectancy.

Death Statistics

Another indicator — the early death count total that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses to determine whether the country is having an epidemic — has looked bad all year and has continued to look bad in recent weeks.

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The latest period with firm numbers is the 4-week period that ended July 15.

During that period, the country averaged 53,070 deaths per week from all causes, including COVID-19 and the effects of COVID-19 on the health care system and economy.

That was just 0.7% lower than the average recorded during the comparable period in 2022, and it was 7.9% higher than the average recorded during the comparable period in 2019.

If the total U.S. death rate stayed about 8% higher than the pre-pandemic normal for an entire year, that would translate into the country recording about 200,000 extra deaths.

Adult COVID-19 Admissions


June
July
Change

Alabama
369
599
62.3%

Alaska
96
95
-1.0%

Arizona
714
677
-5.2%

Arkansas
238
219
-8.0%

California
5,048
5,531
9.6%

Colorado
377
345
-8.5%

Connecticut
347
395
13.8%

Delaware
65
82
26.2%

District of Columbia
62
87
40.3%

Florida
3,623
5,208
43.7%

Georgia
743
1,105
48.7%

Hawaii
275
384
39.6%

Idaho
114
113
-0.9%

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Illinois
884
874
-1.1%

Indiana
264
351
33.0%

Iowa
124
140
12.9%

Kansas
142
144
1.4%

Kentucky
222
276
24.3%

Louisiana
384
634
65.1%

Maine
72
81
12.5%

Maryland
296
409
38.2%

Massachusetts
749
704
-6.0%

Michigan
693
527
-24.0%

Minnesota
186
257
38.2%

Mississippi
139
230
65.5%

Missouri
369
402
8.9%

Montana
72
92
27.8%

Nebraska
89
101
13.5%

Nevada
320
292
-8.8%

New Hampshire
116
159
37.1%

New Jersey
635
697
9.8%

New Mexico
123
115
-6.5%

New York
1,876
2,120
13.0%

North Carolina
573
790
37.9%

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North Dakota
47
41
-12.8%

Ohio
670
703
4.9%

Oklahoma
187
196
4.8%

Oregon
301
380
26.2%

Pennsylvania
856
1,004
17.3%

Rhode Island
81
61
-24.7%

South Carolina
326
401
23.0%

South Dakota
54
50
-7.4%

Tennessee
331
500
51.1%

Texas
2,057
2,927
42.3%

Utah
226
204
-9.7%

Vermont
55
34
-38.2%

Virginia
458
571
24.7%

Washington
588
660
12.2%

West Virginia
109
120
10.1%

Wisconsin
414
307
-25.8%

Wyoming
63
54
-14.3%

MEDIAN


12.5%

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