Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images(NEW YORK) After weeks of increasing COVID hospitalizations in the United States, the number of patients seems to be trending downward, and experts say the summer peak might be over.
Weekly hospitalizations decreased 3.1% from 19,691 to 19,079 for the week ending Sept. 23, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The figure is close to levels seen in March of this year and marks the second straight week of declines, data shows.
Previously, hospitalizations had increased from late July to early September, even surpassing 20,000 weekly patients last month, data showed.
Public health experts told ABC News that it looks like the summer peak is over and all COVID metrics should be on the decline ahead of traditional respiratory virus season.
"Signs point to the fact that the increase that we saw late summer is now subsiding," said Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist and chief innovation officer at Boston Child
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Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images(NEW YORK) After weeks of increasing COVID hospitalizations in the United States, the number of patients seems to be trending downward, and experts say the summer peak might be over.
Weekly hospitalizations decreased 3.1% from 19,691 to 19,079 for the week ending Sept. 23, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The figure is close to levels seen in March of this year and marks the second straight week of declines, data shows.
Previously, hospitalizations had increased from late July to early September, even surpassing 20,000 weekly patients last month, data showed.
Public health experts told ABC News that it looks like the summer peak is over and all COVID metrics should be on the decline ahead of traditional respiratory virus season.
"Signs point to the fact that the increase that we saw late summer is now subsiding," said Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist and chief innovation officer at Boston Child