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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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
