More hospitals in the U.S. are going days without seeing any new COVID-19 patients, but despite the positive sign, concerns remain that the delta coronavirus variant could start filling up beds again.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the country had more than 400 COVID-19 hospitalizations during the first week of June. That was significantly lower than in early January when the U.S. had more than 6,600 hospitalizations.
“You know it was really rewarding… we鈥檝e been needing a breather,” Ashley Henderson, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, told Television Stations. “I can鈥檛 emphasize enough how challenging the last year and a half has been for so, so many.”
The FOX report also pointed to concerns that the more dangerous and more deadly delta COVID-19 variant could increase hospitalizations, particularly among unvaccinated Americans.
“That鈥檚 always a concern,” Henderson said. “I still like to believe that we will not see a wave that was as big as we saw, you know, in the winter months.”