12 Worst States for the New Stealth Wave of COVID-19
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About 2. 54 out of every 100,000 working-age U. S. citizens visited the hospital with a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the week ending Dec. 2. This is a far cry from the highs seen in the worst weeks of the pandemic, but is above the 2023 low, at 0. 85 for the week ending July 1, and above 2. 18 for the week ending November 27.
Statewide, the hospitalization rate ranged from 0 in Vermont to more than five in two states.
For a review of states with working-age hospitalization rates, see the gallery above.
For information on the 50 states and the District of Columbia, see the table below.
What it means: COVID-19 continues. One explanation is that many other people piled up for the Thanksgiving holiday without wearing masks or following any other precautions, and another is that a new JN. 1 variant, an offshoot of the omicron variant, could spread more than many other COVID-19 variants. Year 19 variants.
Persistently high mortality rates can make life insurance more expensive and, eventually, annuities and pensions a bit cheaper.
Functions that provide death benefits to beneficiaries of pensioners and survivors of pension plan members limit the positive effect of higher mortality on pensions and pension plans.
The facts: The U. S. has roughly 172 million people between the ages of 25 and 59 who are in their prime years and are more likely to have life insurance and contribute to pension plans.
One of the demanding situations faced by finance professionals seeking to analyze knowledge about COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations is that budget cuts and policy adjustments have eliminated many national COVID-19 reporting streams, reduced the number of hospitals submitting knowledge, and some states have abandoned the federal knowledge-gathering systems that still exist.
For example, Iowa, Kansas, New Hampshire and Oklahoma stopped submitting regime reports on COVID-19 deaths to the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security and Oregon sends data on cases that resulted in death to the CDC.
According to reports on the effect of COVID-19 and influenza on hospital capacity, the US Department of Health and Human Services is receiving only about a quarter less hospital data than in November 2011 and approximately 63% less data than in November 2011. Early this year.
Rate calculations: Life insurers and public health agencies express death rates, hospitalization rates, and similar types of statistics in terms of “number of lives affected compared to another 100,000 people in the study group” to help offset population levels elsewhere and create numbers. . which are relatively simple to read.
We used 2022 Census Bureau state demographic knowledge, broken down by year of age, to create state-level working-age hospitalization counts consistent with 100,000 working-age residents.
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