COVID-19 hospitalizations drop to lowest levels since summer 2020

The AP (4/1, Kruesi, Finley) reported “COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since” the summer of 2020. The AP added, “The number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has fallen more than 90% in more than two months, and some hospitals are going days without a single COVID-19 patient in the ICU for the first time since early 2020.” Physicians “hope to see a correction to the slide in pediatric visits, yearly checkups and cancer screenings.”

CNN (4/1, McPhillips) reported that as of Friday, there were “16,138 people in the hospital with COVID-19 – fewer than there have ever been since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first started tracking in July 2020.”

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— “Number of COVID patients in US hospitals reaches record low “Ben Finley and Kimberlee Kruesi, AP, April 1, 2022

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