Colorado’s COVID trends just broke a pattern that had occurred every fall since 2020
Hospitalizations related to COVID-19 skipped their annual late-November spike. An unusual summer wave of infections and greater immunity may be the reason.
‘Tis the season in Colorado to be hip-deep in people in the hospital with COVID-19 — except not this year.
In each of Colorado’s previous four years living with the virus, the state has seen COVID hospitalizations surge in the late summer and through the fall, with a peak just before Thanksgiving that gradually recedes.
It may not have been the peak for the entire year, but it was a clear spike that ebbed when, during a season of holiday travel and gatherings, you might think it would continue climbing. (And there’s only been one year — the year that the original omicron variant emerged — where it wasn’t the peak.)
The pattern is clear in this chart, versions of which The Sun has run before when writing (and writing) about a phenomenon one epidemiologist has called “fascinating and beguiling.”
Read more from John Ingold at ColoradoSun.com.
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