With Delta, hospitalizations are fewer per capita, less severe than last winter

CDC: After 120 days, Pfizer vaccine protection against hospitalization falls to 77 percent

While headlines and news stories during the Delta Covid surge have tended to be just as dramatic as during earlier surges, the data are telling a quite different story, especially when it comes to hospitalizations.

To wit, with the Delta surge peaking in many areas and overall nationally, there simply haven’t have been as many new hospitalizations per ca…