Flu cases soar and COVID downturn reverses in Delaware County and Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Division of Well being lastly up to date its flu statistics, which present the sickness took off dramatically within the second half of November.

The variety of documented instances has climbed quickly to just about 50,000 throughout the state with 2,485 of them in Delaware County. Solely Philadelphia, Allegheny and Montgomery counties have extra. These counties have extra individuals than Delaware County. The one extra extremely populated county within the state than Delaware is Bucks, which has tallied just one,815.

The well being division’s chart of COVID instances present a flu season already hitting marks not seen over the course of the previous 10 years. Emergency room visits have additionally risen considerably prior to now few weeks.

There have been seven deaths statewide within the flu season, all amongst individuals age 65 and older. The state gives no particulars of who died and the place the deaths occurred.

The Delaware County Well being Division provides no statistics concerning the flu

COVID statistics

These are the newest COVID-19 statistics from the Pennsylvania Division of Well being and the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention:

• 499 new instances in Delaware County prior to now week and 10,730 throughout the state, each upturns

• 68.0 and 60.6, new case charges per 100,000 for Delco and the state, each upturns as could be anticipated.

• 10.3% and 9.9%, positivity charges within the county and the state, respectively, greater than 1 level up in Delco and seven-tenths up within the state.

• 47 hospitalized with COVID within the county, a one-day snapshot, greater than double the earlier week.

• 11 hospitalized per 100,000 inhabitants over the week within the county, which interprets to about 62 new sufferers weekly, flat.

• 1,269 hospitalized with COVID within the state, up 140 in per week and again to just about the surge peak.

• 5 deaths of Delaware County residents of COVID or as a contributing issue for a complete of 1,990 since March 2020.

• 116 COVID deaths statewide, down considerably. The pandemic complete is 48,387.

• 957 extra county residents “absolutely vaccinated” for a complete of 432,615 over your entire two-year episode of inoculation alternatives. Numbers are declining weekly.

• 3,448 extra county residents receiving the bivalent boosters for a complete of 82,220. The numbers on this class proceed to say no sooner than “absolutely vaccinated.”

• Reasonable: COVID threat in Delaware County.

• BQ.1 and BQ1.1 now make up about 60% of the instances within the U.S. and the mid-Atlantic. There at the moment are 12 variants accounting for all of the home instances.

• The primary variant with a designation that doesn’t begin with “B” can be on the rise. XBB is at 5.5.% of the instances.

• 43,300 every day case common nationally prior to now week, practically flat after 5 weeks of modest will increase.

• The second omicron surge peaked at a seven-day common of 129,889 on July 16. The low week of the 12 months was in late March with a every day case common of 27,465. The low level after the pandemic bought rolling in spring 2020 was 11,745 in June 2021.

The loss of life complete is predicated on residency, not the place somebody dies. Neither the Delaware County Well being Division nor medical expert’s workplace present particulars about instances, hospitalizations or deaths throughout the county.

The preliminary omicron surge subsided in mid-February and the second surge, based mostly on offshoots of the unique omicron, started about two months later.

The county well being division is providing free at-home COVID take a look at kits.  All the data is obtainable at www.delcopa.gov/well being.