COVID-19 hospitalizations stall out just above Stage 4 threshold

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Though it appeared the 7-day moving average of COVID-19 hospital admissions were dropping rapidly enough in Austin to get us to the threshold for Stage 4 COVID-19 risk-based guidelines by the end of this week, the numbers have stalled just above it, keeping us in the Stage 5 threshold for now.
Austin-Travis County leaders use several metrics in their key indicators for staging dashboard, including community transmission rate, positivity rate and the 7-day moving average of