{"id":6969,"date":"2024-07-03T09:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6969"},"modified":"2024-07-03T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:50:58","slug":"covid-19-emergency-room-visits-deaths-are-up-should-you-be-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/03\/covid-19-emergency-room-visits-deaths-are-up-should-you-be-worried\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 emergency room visits, deaths are up. Should you be worried?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More people ended up in emergency rooms and died in recent weeks from COVID-19, federal health data<\/a> showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The information agencies collect, known as surveillance data, that tracks cases and the spread of COVID-19 has become limited. However, COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are indicators<\/a> of the disease\u2019s spread. The numbers for emergency room admissions and deaths are up, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insight into the uptick:<\/strong>Why are people suddenly getting COVID-19 this summer?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID-19, with its endless list of mutating sub-variants<\/a>, appears to have more predictable seasons, with large jumps in cases during winter months, and smaller increases in the summer. Experts previously told USA TODAY cases appear to be increasing<\/a> this summer. However, Americans don’t face nearly the same risk of serious illness or death due to COVID-19 compared to earlier in the pandemic, thanks in part to vaccines and prior infections that keep people protected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That doesn\u2019t mean people shouldn\u2019t be concerned. In 2023, more than 75,000 people died from COVID-19. Nearly a million people wound up in U.S. hospitals last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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USA Today More people ended up in emergency rooms and died in recent weeks from COVID-19, federal health data showed. The information agencies collect, known as surveillance data, that tracks cases and the spread of COVID-19 has become limited. However, COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are indicators of the disease\u2019s spread. The numbers for emergency room admissions and deaths are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6970,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions\/6970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}