(GNB Desk) : The latest Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDS) COVID view report shows that COVID-19 associated hospitalization rates amount Hispanic/Latino, Non- Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native, non-Hispanic Black people are about 2 times higher than those for Non-Hispanic White people.
CDC says the report shows all the indicator used to track COVID 19 activity have been increasing nationally in the United States since the beginning of October 2020.
According to CDC, Key points are as below:
- Holidays during weeks 52 and 53 and increases in the number of COVID-19 illnesses have affected data reporting and health care seeking behavior in multiple ways; therefore, data from recent weeks should be interpreted with caution because they may change more than usual as additional data for those weeks are received.
- Nationally, the overall percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 decreased during week 1 (14.5%) compared with week 53 (15.4%). Percent positivity decreased in nine of ten HHS surveillance regions.
- For Region 1 (New England), percent positivity has increased for the most recent two weeks.
- Eight regions (Region 2 [New Jersey/New York/Puerto Rico], Region 3 [Mid-Atlantic], Region 4 [Southeast], Region 6 [South Central], Region 7 [Central], Region 8 [Midwest], Region 9 [South/West Coast], and Region 10 [Pacific Northwest]) had shown increasing trends in percent positivity for two or more weeks until seeing a decline during week 1 compared with week 53.
- Region 5 (Midwest) had a decreasing trend in percent positivity from mid-November through late December and has reported fluctuations in percent positivity during the past two weeks.
- Surveillance indicators of mild to moderate illness at the national level declined for CLI and remained stable (change of ≤ 0.1%) for ILI during week 1 compared to week 53 but had shown increasing trends from late September 2020 through early January 2021.
- The overall cumulative COVID-19-associated hospitalization rate through the week ending January 9, 2021 was 364.3 hospitalizations per 100,000 population.
- The overall weekly hospitalization rate reached its highest point at 17.6 per 100,000 during the week ending December 12, 2020 (Week 50), and it remains elevated. Although reported rates in recent weeks have declined, these rates are likely to increase as additional data are reported. Longer delays in data reporting may occur due to the holidays.
- When examining age-adjusted hospitalization rates by race and ethnicity, compared with non-Hispanic White persons, hospitalization rates were 3.3 times higher among Hispanic or Latino persons and Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native persons and 3.0 times higher among non-Hispanic Black persons.\
- The percentage of deaths due to PIC increased from the beginning of October through early December (27.6%), when it exceeded the percentage of deaths due to PIC observed during the summer peak (17.2%) and approached the peak seen in April (27.7%).
- Nationally, the percentage of deaths due to PIC increased from week 53 (15.9%) to week 1 (17.2%), after a declining trend in the percentage of deaths due to PIC for the previous four weeks. The percentage of deaths due to PIC for these weeks are likely to increase as additional death certificates are processed.
- Due to the large number of deaths reported in recent weeks and the holidays, the change may be larger than usual.
Based on data reported to CDC by public health laboratories and a subset of clinical and commercial laboratories in the United States, 105,021,534 specimens were tested for SARS-CoV-2 using a molecular assay since March 1, 2020. The percentage of specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 each week, based on the week of specimen collection, are summarized below.
- Nationally, 455,437 (14.5%) of 3,148,737 specimens tested for SARS-CoV-2 for diagnostic purposes were positive during week 1. This is a decrease compared with week 53, during which 15.4% of specimens tested were positive. The percentage of specimens testing positive decreased among all age groups.
According to the CDC, rates of #COVID19 cases are increasing across the United States. The current 7-day average of new cases increased by 16% from the previous 7-day period.
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