Flu cases continue to soar in Delaware County and Pennsylvania

Amid all of the glee of being masks free, hovering flu instances this week even dwarfed the rising COVID-19 tide within the newest spherical of statistics from the Pennsylvania Division of Well being and U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.

However one COVID statistic stands out: The milestone of two,000 deaths of Delaware County residents for the reason that pandemic started in March 2020 was handed with a second-omicron-surge file 12 deaths prior to now week, both immediately from COVID or with COVID as a contributing trigger. The loss of life depend over 33 months is 2,002.

Within the flu, the county added practically 1,000 instances for a complete of three,400 within the seven weeks that the state well being division has been conserving data. Emergency room visits for the flu are as much as about 5% of the whole quantity of visits at ERs. Many of the flu visits are for the youngest of kids.

Statewide the flu racked up practically 25,000 extra instances. On the whole, the upper the inhabitants of the county, the extra the instances, however not essentially.

Scorching spots have developed in Erie, Northampton and York counties, statistics present. The latter has had about 300 extra instances than Delaware. York’s inhabitants is about 450,000 whereas Delaware is at about 580,000.

The state flu-case depend has already raced to ranges nicely above the previous decade. Eight flu deaths have been reported statewide, all age 65 and older. The state gives no particulars in regards to the deaths or the decedants.

The company has been comparatively quiet about the whole flu matter. The Delaware County Well being Division provides no statistics in regards to the flu.

COVID statistics

In the meantime, the about-face in COVID numbers that started two weeks in the past continues, particularly nationally.

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

• 565 new instances in Delaware County prior to now week and practically 14,000 throughout the state, up 10% within the county and 20% throughout Pennsylvania.

• 79.6 and 77.8, new case charges per 100,000 for Delco and the state, respectively, each upturns as can be anticipated.

• 11.3% and 10.9%, positivity charges within the county and the state, respectively, up 1 level in every case.

• 32 hospitalized with COVID within the county, a one-day snapshot, down considerably from final week however nonetheless above latest numbers. Some not hospitalized may nicely be among the many 12 useless.

• 13 hospitalized per 100,000 inhabitants over the week within the county, which interprets to about 75 new sufferers weekly, up.

• 1,264 hospitalized with COVID within the state, down a handful in per week.

• 140 COVID deaths statewide, again as much as two weeks in the past. The pandemic complete is 48,527.

• 878 extra county residents “absolutely vaccinated” for a complete of 433,493 over the whole two-year episode of inoculation alternatives. Numbers are declining weekly

• 4,050 extra county residents receiving the bivalent boosters for a complete of 86,275, up a number of hundred in per week.

• Average: 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. A dozen variants account for all of the home instances. The bivalent boosters have been formulated to battle earlier variants however the drugmakers say they’ll work on the newest as nicely.

• The primary variant with a designation that doesn’t begin with “B” maintained about 5% of the instances.

• 65,569 every day case common nationally prior to now week, up about 50%.

• The second omicron surge peaked nationally 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.

• 2,961 deaths nationally, most in two months.

The previous practically three years has proven that rising numbers of deaths observe rising numbers of hospitalizations, which observe rising numbers of instances.

The loss of life complete is predicated on residency, not the place somebody dies. Neither the Delaware County Well being Division nor health worker’s workplace present particulars about instances, hospitalizations or deaths inside 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 third era of recent variants appears to be in management.

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