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Public health followup: Covid cases continue to decline

Oct 23, 2023

In July and August the media was filled with apocalyptic projections of a surge in Covid cases and a triple-demic of Covid, flu and RSV this fall.

Here’s the update on Covid:

COVID metrics showed more declines last week, though deaths from the virus—one of its severity indicators—rose 4.2% compared to the previous week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its latest data update. Deaths were up a bit in a number of states but were up more sharply in Oregon.

However, hospitalizations for COVID, which the CDC also uses to track severity, declined 5% over the past week. Levels are low for most of the country, except for parts of the upper midwest and northwest, where several counties are in the moderate range.
Most US COVID markers show declines | CIDRAP (umn.edu)