State-Level COVID-19 Hospital Impact and Capacity Metrics

United States state-aggregated data on hospital utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic, compiled from facility-level reports submitted to HHS via TeleTracking and HHS Protect. The dataset includes metrics on bed occupancy, ICU utilization, and COVID-19 admissions, with updates provided regularly until mandatory reporting ended on May 3, 2024. It was published and maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (datahub.hhs.gov).

Use Cases

• Modeling inpatient_bed_covid_utilization and adult_icu_bed_covid_utilization trends over time using the date field to forecast resource shortages.
• Analyzing demographic disparities in COVID-19 severity by correlating age-stratified admission columns like previous_day_admission_adult_covid_confirmed_70-79 with state-level geographic boundaries.
• Assessing pediatric healthcare impact by tracking metrics such as total_pediatric_patients_hospitalized_confirmed_covid and staffed_icu_pediatric_patients_confirmed_covid.
• Evaluating data completeness and reporting quality across states using coverage fields like inpatient_beds_used_covid_coverage.

Strengths

• Includes pediatric-specific metrics added in April 2022, such as staffed_pediatric_icu_bed_occupancy.
• Provides state-level geographic aggregation for regional analysis.
• Incorporates data from multiple reporting sources (HHS TeleTracking, HHS Protect) with deduplication logic.

Limitations

• Contains no statistical imputation for missing data, as noted in the description.
• Data collection ended for mandatory reporting on May 3, 2024, limiting temporal coverage of recent trends.
• Sample size and total row count are unknown, preventing assessment of dataset scale.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (datahub.hhs.gov).

Collection Method

Aggregated from facility-level reports submitted to HHS TeleTracking and HHS Protect by state/territorial health departments.

Time Range

Covers the COVID-19 pandemic period up to May 3, 2024.

Freshness

Last updated July 3, 2025, but includes data only up to the end of mandatory reporting on May 3, 2024.

Geography

United States, aggregated at the state level.