'I think what it is, is, unfortunately, a sign that we have a lot of potential for more explosive growth as we move from summer into fall.'Īs has been the case for the past three-plus years, it's difficult to pin down precise causes of the current uptick. 'We're probably not in the same sort of surge as our winter omicron surges have been,' says Neil Sehgal, a public health professor at the University of Maryland and the University of Washington.
Meanwhile, in Virginia, 146 people were admitted to the hospital with COVID in the last week of July, a slight increase from 121 in the last week of June.Īlthough the current rates indicate an increase in viral transmission, hospitalizations still remain low relative to the most recent spike, which occurred in January this year, and significantly below what we saw during our most deadly surges, like the winter omicron peak in late 2021 and early 2022. According to the state's data, a total of 125 people were currently hospitalized with COVID as of Aug. In Maryland, the rate of new weekly COVID hospitalizations per 100,000 residents rose from 1.08 on July 1 to 2.10 on July 29.
