Washington, Florida and Hawaii ranked highest on Civic Forecast's hospital strain index, week to October 24, 2026
Washington scores 95: 85.4% of inpatient beds occupied and 4.09 new COVID-19, flu and RSV admissions per 100,000 people that week. It averages each state's percentile rank on those two CDC measures across the 47 states and the District of Columbia scored (of 51): a rank, not a level. Civic Forecast index from CDC NHSN hospital data, week to October 24, 2026.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.