Department of Health provides weekly update on COVID-19 trends in vaccinations, cases and hospitalizations

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has provided a weekly COVID-19 update as of Monday, Jan. 10.

Pennsylvania continues to make critical strides in getting eligible residents vaccinated working closely with vaccine providers, grassroots organizations, and relevant stakeholders to ensure all Pennsylvanians have access to the COVID-19 vaccine. According to the CDC, as of Monday, Jan. 10, 74.6% of Pennsylvanians age 18 and older are fully vaccinated. This percentage reflects all 67 counties in Pennsylvania.

If you or your loved ones are not yet vaccinated, now is the time to get fully vaccinated, get boosted, and get children ages 5 – 18 vaccinated. Visit vaccines.gov to find a vaccine provider near you to schedule your vaccine appointment.

This week, the Department of Health analyzed the following vaccine data within its 66-county vaccine jurisdiction; Philadelphia is a separate vaccine jurisdiction:

• 313,260 vaccine doses were administered in the past week, including:
  – 154,179 booster doses administered in the past week.
  – 48,395 pediatric doses administered in the past week.
• 16.2% increase in vaccines administered from previous week.

Here is a statewide summary of COVID-19 trends over the past seven days Monday, Jan. 3 – Sunday, Jan. 9:

• The daily average number of cases was 27,545.
• The number of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 on Monday, Jan. 10 was 18.3 percent higher than on Jan. 3. The percent of available adult and pediatric ICU beds in the state fell to 13.8% and rose to 12.4%, respectively.
• Approximately 31% of all staffed adult ICU beds are COVID-19 patients.
• 32.7% of all ventilators statewide are in use.

The Department of Health continues to provide the public with extensive and frequently updated data on both the COVID-19 dashboard and the vaccine dashboard. Both dashboards provide an interactive experience for the user to review statewide and local-level data updated daily.

The department also provides a dashboard showing COVID-19 data for skilled nursing homes including case counts, deaths and vaccination status for residents and staff.

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