Several weeks into the rise of the BA.2 subvariant, public health predictions that it would not cause a surge in severe illness and hospitalizations seem to be holding true in Pennsylvania, despite upticks in case numbers.
— with most people likely having some protection from a recent infection, vaccination, or both — would head off a more devastating surge.“I wouldn’t be surprised in the next week or so if the numbers jump a little bit,” Jonathan Stallkamp, chief medical officer for Main Line Health, said Wednesday. But “we aren’t suspecting [there will be] a large increase in hospitalizations, given the fact that people are vaccinated [and] a lot of people have had COVID before,” many during the omicron surge.
Hospitalizations had increased by 12% in both states in the same time period, according to New York Times data. In Philadelphia, all eyes were on the numbers last week as health officials cited declining hospitalization and. At the same time, the number of people hospitalized in the city rose by a handful from Thursday to Friday.
“Those numbers are much lower than the peak of the omicron surge, and they’re a little bit above what we had seen at the very lowest numbers about two weeks ago,” said UPMC chief medical officer Donald Yealy. “While we’ve seen more activity in our hospitals because of the new variant, the BA.2 variant … it has not translated into the same level of illness burden that we have seen before.
And staff members who have stayed need a chance to recover that many have yet to get, some leaders said.
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