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Have any stats on that?

The U.S. is heading back towards the January peak and Florida has more than any other time during the pandemic.

Most certainly...

COVID-19 Hospitalizations

We are no where NEAR the January peak...

No where near the peak IN THOSE 14 STATES. Which, by the way, do not include Florida.

Try the CDC or WaPo pages which show all states including this one.

State of Florida Data | FAU Business

I trust the WaPo as far as I can throw them... I've lived in the DC area my entire life and I watched as a once great newspaper disintegrated into a partisan tabloid...

And I'm finding numbers (form various news sources) from 5,000-15,000 people hospitalized... The CDC has nothing I can find...

Which is correct? I dunno'

Check it out here: Florida Coronavirus Map and Case Count - The New York Times

It's behind a pay wall... No can do...

But the Times is worse than the WaPo...

What lies? Needing a booster is not suspicious. We get flu shots that don’t always work but we get them anyway to increase our chances of staying healthy. This is no different except this virus is a lot more lethal. In all my 70 years I have never seen such nonsense about flu vaccines. QUOTE=birdawg;1984164]I’m done tired of the lies. No more shots for us[/QUOTE]

Ah, but how many deaths? Big difference.

Deaths are working out to be about 1.5% of cases with a 3 week lag. Very similar to the surges in the past. If the trend holds there will be over 600 per day by this Friday and over 1,000 per day by next Friday.

I just had bloodwork this morning (for a routing Dr's appointment on Wednesday). I asked them to also run a Covid antibody test to see if I still have antibodies from my "bout" with covid 18 months ago...

Not too many folks consider one week as qualifying as a trend. Get back to us when you can prove that we are at the Jan level and I might be concerned.

We've already covered this, I don't care if you are concerned. In fact, I'm pretty sure you will continue to deny reality and never be concerned. My interest is in providing balance to the "facts" that you make up.

This is not a one week trend. The correlation between Covid deaths and cases in the US can be seen in graphs available from several sources and has been evident since early 2020. The latest increase in cases began close to July 4 and the latest increase in deaths began three weeks later around July 25.

Cases increased from July 4 to July 18 and deaths increase from July 25 to today. Cases have continued to increase from July 18 to today and, if the trend continues, we have at least three more weeks of increasing daily death numbers.

We have not returned to peak hospitalization rates in the US according to the most recent CDC statistics.

Jan 09 2021….70 hospitalizations per 100 thousand
Jun 26 2021…..3
Jul 24 2021…….8

There has been a slight increase since the minimum on Jun 26, 2021, but not near the January maximum.

A new variant Delta+ is now spreading and might require the booster vaccination.

Do you have a link for your most recent CDC statistics?

I do: CDC Covid Tracker and it shows:

hospitalized patients 1/11/21: 123, 865
hospitalized patients 6/26/21: 12,100
hospitalized patients 8/3/21: 45, 237 (more than 1/3 the January peak and climbing)
And that was almost a week ago:
hospitalized patients 8/9/21: ?? (I expect this to be in the 66,000 range)


We're not at the January levels nationally but we're on the path to getting there.
Florida is exceptionally high and has already exceeded its all-time peak from last July.