Sixteen US States Reported Increased COVID Hospitalizations Before Christmas--CDC map

COVID map shows US states with increased hospitalizations before Christmas States in the east and southeast saw the greatest week-on-week rises in hospital admissions in the seven days to December 23. Newsweek

Sixteen U.S. states had a substantial increase in coronavirus hospitalizations in the week leading up to Christmas compared with the previous seven days, maps from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show.

There were 29,059 new COVID-19 admissions across the U.S. in the week ending December 23—an overall rise of 16.7 percent over the previous seven days. These increases were higher among states along the Atlantic coast and in the southeast, as well as Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. At the same time, the prevalence of positive tests has risen in the central Midwest.

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