U.S. Covid hospitalizations hit new low, falling 32 percent in the last two weeks

Wyoming has the lowest Covid hospitalization rate in the U.S., with nine cases reported on Thursday.

Covid-19 hospitalizations are at their lowest level since the U.S. began keeping records at the beginning of the pandemic, according to an NBC News analysis of HHS data.

Average hospitalizations fell to 16,760, lower than the previous low of 16,808, set before the delta wave in June. Hospitalization figures from the past few days could change as hospitals finalize numbers.

Since March 2020, when HHS began recording hospitalizations, as many as 159,000 people have been hospitalized in a day with Covid, a peak that was set Jan. 20 during the omicron surge. On average, the country has reported 63,000 hospitalizations a day.

In the past two weeks, hospitalizations have fallen by 32 percent, from an average of 24,595 to 16,760.

President Joe Biden declared in his State of the Union address this month that “Covid-19 need no longer control our lives.”