Weekly Rates of Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 Hospitalizations from the COVID-NET Surveillance System
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 [COVID-19] Hospitalization Surveillance Network [COVID-NET] is designed to conduct population-based surveillance for laboratory-confirmed COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among children and adults. COVID-NET, along with the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network [RSV-NET] and the Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network [FluSurv-NET], comprise the Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network [RESP-NET]. The RESP-NET platforms have overlapping surveillance areas and use similar methods to collect data. COVID-NET is CDC’s source for important data on rates of hospitalizations associated with COVID-19. Hospitalization rates show how many people in the surveillance area are hospitalized with COVID-19, compared to the total number of people residing in that area.