Covid is being covered less and less in the news, and most of the tracking reporting channels have been shuttered, but here's what I could find.

Ca:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/covid-flu-hospitalizations-rising-18587313.php

Nationwide, the last week of December saw 78,905 emergency department admissions for COVID-19 and 136,668 for influenza, marking respective increases of 72% and 225% from the previous month. In the past week alone, COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States rose by nearly 17%, totaling 29,059 cases.

...Approximately 80% of the state’s inpatient beds were occupied, with nearly 70% of intensive care beds in use. COVID-19 deaths, meanwhile, increased by 31% week over week during the third week of December.

During the last week of 2023, close to 30,000 new patients were hospitalized for COVID-19, marking the highest recorded data since last January. Additionally, more than 14,000 Americans were hospitalized for the flu.
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There's debate on whether the levels for Covid in wastewater is high now because of a 'wave' of Covid -or- if new variants increase the output per person so while the levels are high - in some cases the 2nd or 3rd highest level of the pandemic - that fewer people may be producing more covd.

Example article:
San Jose: New Year’s risk? San Jose experiencing 3rd highest COVID wave right now, wastewater shows
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/28/new-years-risk-san-jose-experiencing-3rd-highest-covid-wave-ever-right-now-wastewater-shows/

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Florida: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2024/01/04/covid-is-on-the-rise-in-florida-after-holidays-heres-how-to-protect-yourself/72086201007/

During the week of Dec. 23, Florida saw an uptick in hospital admissions and emergency department visits attributed to the virus. These factors increased compared to the prior week, while deaths attributed to the virus fell, according to the CDC. Here's how that breaks down:

1.2% of all deaths were attributed to COVID, a 25% decrease
1,391 new hospital admissions of confirmed COVID, a 21.8% increase
1.7% of emergency department visits involved a COVID-19 diagnosis, a 10.8% increase

National data for the same time period:

3.3% of all deaths were attributed to COVID, a 10% increase
29,059 hospital admissions of confirmed COVID, a 16.7% increase
2.5% of emergency department visits involved a COVID diagnosis, a 12% increase

During the summer — when COVID levels last surged — national hospital admissions peaked Sept. 9 at 20,960. They fell to 15,052 on Nov. 4 before beginning to increase again.

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Another covid wave hits U.S. as JN.1 becomes dominant variant
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/01/04/covid-2024-us-jn1/

The United States is in the throes of another covid-19 uptick, cementing a pattern of the virus surging around the holidays as doctors and public health officials brace for greater transmission after Americans return to school and work this week.

Coronavirus samples detected in wastewater, the best metric for estimating community viral activity, suggests infections could be as rampant as they were last winter. A smattering of health facilities around the country, including every one in Los Angeles County, are requiring masks again. JN.1, the new dominant variant, appears to be especially adept at infecting those who have been vaccinated or previously infected.

While photos of positive coronavirus tests are once again proliferating across social media, fewer people are going to the hospital than a year ago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 29,000 covid hospitalizations in the week before Christmas, the most recent data, compared with 39,000 the previous year. The agency has reported an average of 1,400 weekly deaths since Thanksgiving, less than half of the fatalities at the same point last year.