Federal government charts illustrating trends in new COVID-19 case counts and hospitalization rates show that some states may be heading into a severe new wave of the coronavirus.
Hospitalization rates may be a better indicator of outbreak severity than new case counts because ups and downs in the number of people diagnosed with COVID-19 might reflect changes in how easy and cheap it is for people to get tested, rather than infection rates.
Hospitals, in contrast, are likely to admit people with COVID-19 only when those people are seriously ill.
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