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COVID-19 looked as if it might be fading away in June, and then it flared up in July.

Hospitals told the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that they admitted an average of 7,217 adults with confirmed cases of COVID-19 per week in July, up 9.5% from the average in June, according to the latest HHS COVID-19 hospitalization data.

August is getting off to a bad start: Hospitals admitted 10,182 adults with confirmed COVID-19 during the week ending Aug. 5.

COVID-19 admissions have increased by 62% since the week ending June 30, which was the best week since August 2020, when public health officials developed the current hospitalization tracking strategy.

For a look at the 12 states with the biggest adult COVID-19 hospital admissions increases between June and July, see the gallery above. For numbers for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, see the table below.

What It Means

The federal COVID-19 public health emergency has expired, and HHS and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have stopped tracking many streams of COVID-19 data.

The total number of hospitalizations and deaths is much lower than it was in 2020 and 2021. But the virus that causes COVID-19 is still out there, and it continues to add uncertainty to any financial plan that depends on estimates of a client’s life expectancy.

Death Statistics

Another indicator — the early death count total that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses to determine whether the country is having an epidemic — has looked bad all year and has continued to look bad in recent weeks.

The latest period with firm numbers is the 4-week period that ended July 15.

During that period, the country averaged 53,070 deaths per week from all causes, including COVID-19 and the effects of COVID-19 on the health care system and economy.

That was just 0.7% lower than the average recorded during the comparable period in 2022, and it was 7.9% higher than the average recorded during the comparable period in 2019.

If the total U.S. death rate stayed about 8% higher than the pre-pandemic normal for an entire year, that would translate into the country recording about 200,000 extra deaths.

Adult COVID-19 Admissions
June July Change
Alabama 369 599 62.3%
Alaska 96 95 -1.0%
Arizona 714 677 -5.2%
Arkansas 238 219 -8.0%
California 5,048 5,531 9.6%
Colorado 377 345 -8.5%
Connecticut 347 395 13.8%
Delaware 65 82 26.2%
District of Columbia 62 87 40.3%
Florida 3,623 5,208 43.7%
Georgia 743 1,105 48.7%
Hawaii 275 384 39.6%
Idaho 114 113 -0.9%
Illinois 884 874 -1.1%
Indiana 264 351 33.0%
Iowa 124 140 12.9%
Kansas 142 144 1.4%
Kentucky 222 276 24.3%
Louisiana 384 634 65.1%
Maine 72 81 12.5%
Maryland 296 409 38.2%
Massachusetts 749 704 -6.0%
Michigan 693 527 -24.0%
Minnesota 186 257 38.2%
Mississippi 139 230 65.5%
Missouri 369 402 8.9%
Montana 72 92 27.8%
Nebraska 89 101 13.5%
Nevada 320 292 -8.8%
New Hampshire 116 159 37.1%
New Jersey 635 697 9.8%
New Mexico 123 115 -6.5%
New York 1,876 2,120 13.0%
North Carolina 573 790 37.9%
North Dakota 47 41 -12.8%
Ohio 670 703 4.9%
Oklahoma 187 196 4.8%
Oregon 301 380 26.2%
Pennsylvania 856 1,004 17.3%
Rhode Island 81 61 -24.7%
South Carolina 326 401 23.0%
South Dakota 54 50 -7.4%
Tennessee 331 500 51.1%
Texas 2,057 2,927 42.3%
Utah 226 204 -9.7%
Vermont 55 34 -38.2%
Virginia 458 571 24.7%
Washington 588 660 12.2%
West Virginia 109 120 10.1%
Wisconsin 414 307 -25.8%
Wyoming 63 54 -14.3%
MEDIAN 12.5%

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