Omicron Surge Forecast To Peak In California With Nearly 30,000 Hospitalizations This Month

deadline.com:

California Governor Gavin Newsom offered details about the impact of Omicron during a press conference about his 2022-2023 budget proposal.“We anticipate, by the 14th or 15th [of this month]…that we’ll be at a higher total hospital census than we were at the peak of this pandemic early last year,” said Newsom, noting also that “not all of them are Covid patients.” That total count was 53,400, according to figures shared by the governor in his presentation.

He also revealed the current total hospital census is 51,917. That means hospitals in the state are about 1,500 patients away from the all-time total census high reached last January.

And, according to a state forecast, the current surge will drive that total count much higher.Last winter saw a record high of 21,938 Covid-related hospitalizations on January 6, 2021.

Today, the state reported 11,048 patients with the virus.Deadline reported on Friday that the ensemble forecast from the California Covid Assessment Tool last week predicted that hospitalizations related to Covid would rise to 23,528 by February 6.