The U.S. tallied about 15,000 reported hospitalizations of people with COVID-19 over the seven days ending Aug. 19. Though a far cry from previous totals during the pandemic, that’s a 19% increase from the week prior, continuing a climb that started at the end of June after hospitalizations reached a recent weekly low point of approximately 6,300.
Relative to population, the latest tally equates to 4.5 people per 100,000 admitted to the hospital. By state, Hawaii and Florida saw the highest rates of new COVID-19 hospitalizations, at 9.8 and 9.7 per 100,000, respectively – more than twice the national rate. Louisiana (6.6), Alabama (6.5) and Mississippi (6.5) had the next-highest rates.
Among patients visiting emergency departments, 1.9% were diagnosed with COVID-19 nationally. Hawaii and the southeastern states of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama and Louisiana saw shares higher than 3%.
Seven counties were described by the CDC as having a “high” level of COVID-19 hospital admissions, with rates of 20 per 100,000 or higher. Several counties in Mississippi – Noxubee, Lowndes, and Clay – as well as Lamar County, Alabama, were reported to have seen 26.4 new hospitalizations per 100,000 people. Another 117 counties were said to have a “medium” level of COVID-19 hospital admissions – with rates between 10.0 and 19.9 per 100,000 people.
Notably, the CDC’s county hospital admission figures are calculated at the Health Service Area level, which can span multiple counties. This means counties within the same HSA will share the same admission rates in the data.
The counties with the highest rates of COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 people were:
Lamar County, Alabama - 26.4
Clay County, Mississippi - 26.4
Lowndes County, Mississippi - 26.4
Noxubee County, Mississippi - 26.4
Fisher County, Texas - 25.8
Mitchell County, Texas - 25.8
Nolan County, Texas - 25.8
Jefferson County, Georgia - 19.6
Washington County, Georgia - 19.6
Claiborne Parish, Louisiana - 19.1
Fillmore County, Nebraska - 19.1
Thayer County, Nebraska - 19.1
Stevens County, Kansas - 18.2
Furnas County, Nebraska - 17.6
Harlan County, Nebraska - 17.6
Phelps County, Nebraska - 17.6
Rutland County, Vermont - 17.2
Foard County, Texas - 16.8
Hardeman County, Texas - 16.8
Wilbarger County, Texas - 16.8
Because hospitalization rates are calculated per 100,000 people, it’s worth noting that even a relatively small number of hospitalizations in a small community can lead to a higher hospitalization rate.
Other measures also can give a sense of the current state of COVID-19. Though the CDC has ceased publishing a "community level" metric that incorporated COVID-19 case rates and hospital admissions – as well as the average percentage of hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients – health departments can submit the results of their sampling of wastewater for the virus to the CDC via the National Wastewater Surveillance System.
Since the U.S. passed 1 million cumulative deaths tied to COVID-19 in the spring of 2022, more than 138,000 additional people have died in connection with the disease, according to provisional data from the CDC.
While the latest tallies are down from a recent peak of about 3,900 deaths in a week in January – and well below the maximum peak of around 26,000 deaths per week in early 2021 – data indicates hundreds of people have died in connection with COVID-19 of late. Maryland and Florida each saw 3.4% of their total deaths attributed to COVID-19 during the week ending Aug. 19, doubling the national percentage.
B | 外界盛传,在最关键的国防部长人选问题上,普京也会有重大人事调整。到时候,绍伊古将不再担任俄罗斯国防部长,接替他未来工作的,将是阿列克谢-久明。
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▲绍伊古、阿列克谢-久明、格拉西莫夫,图片来源:网络
其实对阿列克谢-久明来说,这次的提拔只是一次副转正。
D | 早从2015年开始,他就已经是俄罗斯陆军副司令和陆军总参谋长了。2015年底他又被光速提拔为了中将,然后升任了俄罗斯国防部副部长。阿列克谢-久明出生于1972年,比普京小了20岁。久明出生于军官家庭,1994年毕业于俄罗斯沃罗涅日的军事学院,随后加入了联邦安全局,其后见到了普京,并且给普京担任贴身保镖。
E | 久明和普京之间有许多轶事,打冰球什么的就不值一提了,最有意思的,是久明在接受采访时曾说过,有一次在野外和普京总统碰到了一只熊,然后自己使出浑身解数将其击退。
F | 按理来说,久明肯定不敢对着媒体胡乱撒谎,但因为这件事过于夸张离谱,外界也纷纷表示怀疑。甚至调侃普京骑的那头熊,就是久明收编的(实际上普京骑熊图是P的,根本没有这种事)。
I | 别看佐托洛夫长得有些慈眉善目,但发起狠来也是六亲不认。在担任近卫军总司令期间,有人质疑俄罗斯联邦禁卫军内部相当腐败,这无疑是往佐托洛夫的脸上扇。于是,挑衅者喜提了一份来自佐托洛夫的“约架邀请”,佐托洛夫称会把对方“撕成碎片”。尽管官位不小,但佐托洛夫仍然能保持斯拉夫人“不服就干”而且亲自下场的作风,考虑到他已经是1954年出生的人了,那还真是老当益壮、不服都不行。