Rhode Island's 7-day average of new Covid has decreased 33% since its Janaury 11 peak.
Providence Journal, 1/7/2022
COVID-19 patient hospitalizations, which have risen steeply along with cases this winter, would begin to subside around a week after new infections peak if the projections hold, Health Department spokesman Joseph Wendelken said in an email Friday.
"This has been the experience seen in other parts of the world with [the] Omicron [variant,]" Wendelken wrote in response to a Journal request for its latest modeling.
Connecticut's 7-day average of new Covid has decreased 52% since its Janaury 10 peak.
Hartford Courant, 1/14/2022
The nearly two-year-old pandemic has devastated Connecticut, with 9,442 deaths and more than 600,000 confirmed and probable cases. Even still, the state has nearly 2,000 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, not far off the record level established in spring 2020.
Wu and other experts had previously predicted that COVID-19 cases would peak in mid-January but that hospitalizations would continue to rise somewhat longer. Pedro Mendes, a computational biologist at UConn Health, said Friday that his models still project hospitalizations to peak on Jan. 17.
Original 12/14/2020 post, "The second wave of virus cases in Rhode Island and Connecticut is a tsunami", starts here.
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| Hartford Courant, 12/13/2020 |
Tiny Rhode Island tops the list of U.S. states in new coronavirus cases per capita over the past seven days — nearly twice the rate seen across the border in Connecticut.
The smallest state by area had 115 new coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents over the past week, exceeding all other U.S. states, according to Covid Act Now, which closely tracks the virus in all states.
Connecticut, meanwhile, had 67.3 new cases per 100,000 residents over the same period.
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