The State of the Pandemic
What the latest numbers say about COVID-19 in the Philadelphia region
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Current Spread
XXXXX is at a XXX COVID-19 level, according to the CDC. The new case rate has XXXXX XX% in the last two weeks.
The new case rate in XXXXX has XXXXX XX% in the last two weeks.
The national case rate has XXXXX XX%
The Toll
XXXXXX people in XXXXXXX have died of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
That's more people than the population of XXXXXXXXX.
XXXXXX XXXXXXXXXs have died, greater than the population of XXXXXXXXX.
Vaccinations
XX% of XXXXXXXXXs have received their primary course of vaccination, and XX% have also received a booster.
That's a XXXXX primary vaccination rate than the national average of XX%.
How have cases changed over time?
- New case rate in
- New case rate nationwide
Since the start of the pandemic, XX in XX residents of have had a recorded case of COVID-19.
Coronavirus cases have come in waves, often rising to a peak, cresting, and then falling. As the pandemic has continued, those spikes have gotten smaller and cases have largely plateaued. With the increased availability of at-home testing, recorded cases numbers now likely only represent a fraction of the true count. Omicron has become the most dominant coronavirus variant, prompting the development of updated booster vaccines targeting it.
Read more what how COVID is evolving
How strained are the hospitals in XXXXX?
- Patients
- Patients with COVID-19
- Total number of beds
Hospitalizations provide a barometer for how many people are falling seriously ill with the virus. Because the vaccine is meant to prevent severe illness and death, some experts now say hospitalizations are a better metric of the pandemic’s severity than case counts.
Not every COVID-19 patient is initially hospitalized for the virus, but the virus can worsen or complicate outcomes for patients with other illnesses. And every additional case represents another hospital bed occupied and more strain on a depleted health care workforce.
The number of staffed beds occupied by patients with COVID-19 is one measure of hospital strain that shows how limited resources — in this case, workers and beds — are consumed by the pandemic.
Read more about COVID’s ongoing impact
What does vaccine protection look like?
- Vaccinated hospitalization rate
- Unvaccinated hospitalization rate
Data come from the CDC’s COVID Net network of 250 hospitals across 14 states and do not specifically represent Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Delaware.
The numbers are clear: Vaccines work to prevent serious illness and death.
While vaccines have done an extraordinary job of protecting people from the most severe outcomes, COVID has proven adept at evolving. This has been a challenge to preventing infection or transmission.
The unvaccinated face significantly higher risk of severe illness and death. People who are fully vaccinated, boosted, and not immunocompromised are much less likely to have a severe case or be hospitalized with the virus. While protection against infection wanes as time passes, booster shots are recommended to bolster antibodies.
Read more about the benefits of vaccination
How many XXXXXs are vaccinated?
A majority of Americans and Philadelphians have completed the primary series of vaccination – two doses of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine – but the rate of booster shots has lagged significantly.
Read more about the region’s vaccination progress
What is the death toll?
- Total deaths in
Numbers may fluctuate slightly, and even appear to go down sometimes, due to errors in data collection and reporting.
COVID-19 can be fatal, especially for the unvaccinated, the elderly, and those with underlying conditions. Worldwide, millions of people have died after contracting the virus. The death rate generally lags case and hospitalization rates.
Read more about the virus’s toll
How does XXXXX compare?
New cases per 100,000 people (7-day average)
Your XXXXX
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Case and death rates are seven-day averages.
About the data
Data are sourced from the New York Times, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. All data are subject to reporting errors and delays, and many agencies retroactively update them to reflect new information. Sharp increases or decreases in numbers should be interpreted with caution, as they may signal errors or data dumps of previously unreported backlogs.
Vaccination rates for hospital patients with COVID-19 are from the CDC’s COVID Net surveillance system. Those data are sourced from 99 counties in 14 states that aren’t a representative sample of the entire country or of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware in particular. Numbers are for adults only and are adjusted by the CDC to account for vaccination rates across ages.
Hospital occupancy numbers use Health and Human Services data on the number of inpatient beds available, the beds used by all patients, and those used by COVID-positive patients.
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Staff Contributors
- Design and development: Sam Morris
- Reporting: Erin McCarthy, Jason Laughlin, Kasturi Pananjady, Justine McDaniel
- Editing: Jonathan Lai, Emily Babay, Letitia Stein
- Graphics and Mapping: Sam Morris and Dominique DeMoe
- Data processing: Kasturi Pananjady, Brian Waligorski, and Chris A. Williams