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Weekly new hospital admissions for COVID-19 per million
Number of COVID-19 patients newly admitted to hospitals in a given week (reporting date and the preceding six days), per million people
Source
Official data collated by Our World in Data (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
August 13, 2024
Unit
patients per million people

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Our hospital & ICU data is collected from official sources and collated by Our World in Data.

On 13 August 2023, we stopped adding new datapoints to our COVID-19 hospitalisation dataset.

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Retrieved on
August 13, 2024
Retrieved from
https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/
Citation
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Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser (2020) - "Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus' [Online Resource]
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“Data Page: Weekly new hospital admissions for COVID-19 per million”. Our World in Data (2024). Data adapted from Official data collated by Our World in Data. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-hospital-admissions-covid-per-million [online resource]
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Official data collated by Our World in Data (2024) – processed by Our World in Data

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Official data collated by Our World in Data (2024) – processed by Our World in Data. “Weekly new hospital admissions for COVID-19 per million” [dataset]. Official data collated by Our World in Data, “COVID-19, hospitalisations” [original data]. Retrieved November 1, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-hospital-admissions-covid-per-million