DOI: 10.3886/e243454v1
title: Weekly United States COVID-19 Hospitalization Metrics by County – ARCHIVED

description: Note: After May 3, 2024, this dataset will no longer be updated because hospitals are no longer required to report data on COVID-19 hospital admissions, hospital capacity, or occupancy data to HHS through CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). The related CDC COVID Data Tracker site was revised or retired on May 10, 2023.

Note:
May 3,2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the April 21,2024 through April 27, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on May 3, 2024.

This dataset represents COVID-19 hospitalization data and metrics aggregated to county or county-equivalent, for all counties or county-equivalents (including territories) in the United States. COVID-19 hospitalization data are reported to CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network, which monitors national and local trends in healthcare system stress, capacity, and community disease levels for approximately 6,000 hospitals in the United States. Data reported by hospitals to NHSN and included in this dataset represent aggregated counts and include metrics capturing information specific to COVID-19 hospital admissions, and inpatient and ICU bed capacity occupancy.

Reporting information:
As of December 15, 2022, COVID-19 hospital data are required to be reported to NHSN, which monitors national and local trends in healthcare system stress, capacity, and community disease levels for approximately 6,000 hospitals in the United States. Data reported by hospitals to NHSN represent aggregated counts and include metrics capturing information specific to hospital capacity, occupancy, hospitalizations, and admissions. Prior to December 15, 2022, hospitals reported data directly to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or via a state submission for collection in the HHS Unified Hospital Data Surveillance System (UHDSS).
While CDC reviews these data for errors and corrects those found, some reporting errors might still exist within the data. To minimize errors and inconsistencies in data reported, CDC removes outliers before calculating the metrics. CDC and partners work with reporters to correct these errors and update the data in subsequent weeks.
Many hospital subtypes, including acute care and critical access hospitals, as well as Veterans Administration, Defense Health Agency, and Indian Health Service hospitals, are included in the metric calculations provided in this report. Psychiatric, rehabilitation, and religious non-medical hospital types are excluded from calculations.
Data are aggregated and displayed for hospitals with the same Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Certification Number (CCN), which are assigned by CMS to counties based on the CMS Provider of Services files.
Full details on COVID-19 hospital data reporting guidance can be found here: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospitals-hospital-laboratory-acute-care-facility-data-reporting.pdf

Calculation of county-level hospital metrics:
County-level hospital data are derived using calculations performed at the Health Service Area (HSA) level. An HSA is defined by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics as a geographic area containing at least one county which is self-contained with respect to the population’s provision of routine hospital care. Every county in the United States is assigned to an HSA, and each HSA must contain at least one hospital. Therefore, use of HSAs in the calculation of local hospital metrics allows for more accurate characterization of the relationship between health care utilization and health status at the local level.
Data presented at the county-level represent admissions, hospital inpatient and ICU bed capacity and occupancy among hospitals within the selected HSA. Therefore, admissions, capacity, and occupancy are not limited to residents of the selected HSA.
For all county-level hospital metrics listed below the values are calculated first for the entire HSA, and then the HSA-level value is then applied to each county within the HSA.
For all county-level hospital metrics listed below the values are calculated first for the entire HSA, and then the HSA-level value is then applied to each county within the HSA.

Metric details:
Time period: data for the previous MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) will update weekly on Mondays as soon as they are reviewed and verified, usually before 8 pm ET. Updates will occur the following day when reporting coincides with a federal holiday. Note: Weekly updates might be delayed due to delays in reporting. All data are provisional. Because these provisional counts are subject to change, including updates to data reported previously, adjustments can occur. Data may be updated since original publication due to delays in reporting (to account for data received after a given Thursday publication) or data quality corrections.
New hospital admissions (count): Total number of admissions of patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in the previous week (including both adult and pediatric admissions) in the entire jurisdiction
New Hospital Admissions Rate Value (Admissions per 100k): Total number of new admissions of patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in the past week (including both adult and pediatric admissions) for the entire jurisdiction divided by 2019 intercensal population estimate for that jurisdiction multiplied by 100,000. (Note: This metric is used to determine each county’s COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level for a given week).
New COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Rate Level: qualitative value of new COVID-19 hospital admissions rate level [Low, Medium, High, Insufficient Data]
New hospital admissions percent change from prior week: Percent change in the current weekly total new admissions of patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 per 100,000 population compared with the prior week.
New hospital admissions percent change from prior week level: Qualitative value of percent change in hospital admissions rate from prior week [Substantial decrease, Moderate decrease, Stable, Moderate increase, Substantial increase, Insufficient data]
COVID-19 Inpatient Bed Occupancy Value: Percentage of all staffed inpatient beds occupied by patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (including both adult and pediatric patients) within the in the entire jurisdiction is calculated as an average of valid daily values within the past week (e.g., if only three valid values, the average of those three is taken). Averages are separately calculated for the daily numerators (patients hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19) and denominators (staffed inpatient beds). The average percentage can then be taken as the ratio of these two values for the entire jurisdiction.
COVID-19 Inpatient Bed Occupancy Level: Qualitative value of inpatient beds occupied by COVID-19 patients level [Minimal, Low, Moderate, Substantial, High, Insufficient data]
COVID-19 Inpatient Bed Occupancy percent change from prior week: The absolute change in the percent of staffed inpatient beds occupied by patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 represents the week-over-week absolute difference between the average occupancy of patients with confirmed COVID-19 in staffed inpatient beds in the past week, compared with the prior week, in the entire jurisdiction.
COVID-19 ICU Bed Occupancy Value: Percentage of all staffed inpatient beds occupied by adult patients with confirmed COVID-19 within the entire jurisdiction is calculated as an average of valid daily values within the past week (e.g., if only three valid values, the average of those three is taken). Averages are separately calculated for the daily numerators (adult patients hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19) and denominators (staffed adult ICU beds). The average percentage can then be taken as the ratio of these two values for the entire jurisdiction.
COVID-19 ICU Bed Occupancy Level: Qualitative value of ICU beds occupied by COVID-19 patients level [Minimal, Low, Moderate, Substantial, High, Insufficient data]
COVID-19 ICU Bed Occupancy percent change from prior week: The absolute change in the percent of staffed ICU beds occupied by patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 represents the week-over-week absolute difference between the average occupancy of patients with confirmed COVID-19 in staffed adult ICU beds for the past week, compared with the prior week, in the in the entire jurisdiction.
For all metrics, if there are no data in the specified locality for a given week, the metric value is displayed as “insufficient data”.


Notes:
June 1, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the May 21, 2023, through May 27, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on June 1, 2023.

June 8, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the May 28, 2023, through June 3, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and American Samoa (AS) and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on June 8, 2023.

June 15, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the June 4, 2023, through June 10, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on June 15, 2023.

July 10, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the June 25, 2023, through July 1, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on July 10, 2023.

July 17, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the July 2, 2023, through July 8, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on July 17, 2023.

July 24, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the July 9th, 2023, through July 15, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on July 24, 2023.

July 31, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the July 16, 2023, through July 22, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on July 31, 2023.

August 7, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the July 23, 2023, through July 29, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on August 7, 2023 .

August 14, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the July 30, 2023 through August 5, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on August 14, 2023 .

August 21, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the August 6, 2023, through August 12, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on August 21, 2023.

August 28, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the August 13, 2023, through August 19, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on August 28, 2023.

September 5, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the August 20, 2023, through August 26, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on September 5, 2023.

September 11, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the August 27, 2023, through September 2, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on September 11, 2023.

September 18, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the September 3, 2023, through September 9, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on September 18, 2023.

September 25, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the September 10, 2023, through September 16, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on September 25, 2023.

October 6, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the September 24, 2023, through September 30, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on October 6, 2023.

October 13, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the October 1, 2023, through October 7, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on October 13, 2023.

October 20, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the October 8, 2023, through October 14, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on October 20, 2023.

October 27, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the October 15, 2023, through October 21, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and the Government of Guam (GU) and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on October 27, 2023.

November 3, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the October 22, 2023, through October 28, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on November 3, 2023.

November 13, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the October 29, 2023, through November 4, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on November 13, 2023.

November 17, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the November 5, 2023, through November 11, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on November 17, 2023.

November 27, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the November 12, 2023, through November 18, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on November 27, 2023.

December 1, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the November 19, 2023, through November 25, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and AS and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on December 1, 2023.

December 8, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the November 26, 2023, through December 2, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on December 8, 2023.

December 15, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the December 3, 2023, through December 9, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), American Samoa (AS), and the Government of Guam (GU) and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on December 15, 2023.

December 22, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the December 10, 2023, through December 16, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on December 22, 2023.

December 29, 2023: Hospitalization data reported to CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) through December 23, 2023, should be interpreted with caution due to potential reporting delays that are impacted by Christmas and New Years holidays. As a result, metrics including new hospital admissions for COVID-19 and influenza and hospital occupancy may be underestimated for the week ending December 23, 2023.

December 29, 2023: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the December 17, 2023 through December 23, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI & GU and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on December 29, 2023.

January 5, 2024: Hospitalization data reported to CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) through December 30, 2023 should be interpreted with caution due to potential reporting delays that are impacted by Christmas and New Years holidays. As a result, metrics including new hospital admissions for COVID-19 and influenza and hospital occupancy may be underestimated for the week ending December 30, 2023.

January 5, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the December 24, 2023, through December 30, 2023, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on January 5, 2024.

January 12, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the December 31, 2023, through January 6, 2024, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on January 12, 2024.

January 19, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the January 7, 2024, through January 13, 2024, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on January 19, 2024.

January 26, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the January 14, 2024, through January 20, 2024, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on January 26, 2024.

February 2, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the January 21, 2024 through January 27, 2024, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on February 2, 2024.

February 9, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the January 28, 2024, through February 3, 2024, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on February 9, 2024.

February 16, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the February 4, 2024, through February 10, 2024, reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on February 16, 2024.

February 23,2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the February 11, 2024 through February 17, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on February 23, 2024.

March 1,2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the February 18,2024 through February 24, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on March 1, 2024.

March 8,2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the February 25,2024 through March 2,2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on March 8,2024.

March 15,2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the March 3rd,2024 through March 9,2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on March 15,2024.

March 22nd, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the March 10, 2024 through March 16, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on March 22, 2024.

March 22, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the March 10, 2024 through March 16, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for GU and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on March 22, 2024.

March 29, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the March 17, 2024 through March 23, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on March 29, 2024.

April 5, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the March 24, 2024 through March 30, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on April 5, 2024.

April 12, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the March 31, 2024 through April 6, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on April 12, 2024.

April 19, 2024: Due to a data processing change, reported values for “COVID-19 ICU Bed Occupancy Value” might appear lower on average than previously reported by an average difference of less than one percentage point. Due to this adjustment, some reported values for “COVID-19 ICU Bed Occupancy Level” may also change.

April 19, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the April 7, 2024 through April 13, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on April 19, 2024.

April 19, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the April 7, 2024 through April 13, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for GU and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on April 19, 2024.

April 26, 2024: Due to incomplete or missing hospital data received for the April 14, 2024 through April 20, 2024 reporting period, the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level could not be calculated for CNMI and will be reported as “NA” or “Not Available” in the COVID-19 Hospital Admissions Level data released on April 26, 2024.
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