Hospitalizations from Covid are still happening, but in many instances, patients aren't getting as sick as in the early days of the pandemic.
For more than three years, Dr. Christopher Ohl has been treating Covid patients in the intensive care unit at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in North Carolina."What we're seeing now is our patients who are admitted with Covid pneumonia in the ICU tend to respond faster to treatment, they're less likely to die, and they're more likely to get discharged earlier," said Ohl, also a professor of infectious diseases at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Severe complications and extended hospital stays are less common now compared with several years ago, said Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease expert and an associate professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine. "Generally speaking, they don't get that really horrid hyper-inflammatory disease that we were seeing a few years ago," Wolfe said."We still see it to some extent, but it's not as dramatic as it was."
Just over 17,400 people in the U.S. were hospitalized with Covid the week ending Aug. 26, according to the, a 15.7% increase over the week prior. Hospitalizations have been rising since early July, after hitting an all-time low. This map from the CDC represents the percentage changes in new Covid-related hospital admissions from the week of Aug. 20.There are several reasons why Covid patients may no longer be as sick as in previous years, even when they end up hospitalized.
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