Hospitals are seeing a rise in the number of COVID-19 inpatients being treated.
Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan began Wednesday with 12 positive inpatients, five of whom were in the Intensive Care Unit. All five were said to be on ventilators. Hospital President and CEO Bob Copple tells KMAN that a sixth ventilated patient is an individual who has “timed out” or is a post positive COVID patient, meaning the entire ICU census is COVID related.
The hospital on Tuesday saw its highest volume of COVID positive patients since January, at 15.
As numbers continue to fluctuate, health department officials noted in Wednesday’s COVID update that all of the patients in the ICU were unvaccinated. Only two on the medical floor were said to be vaccinated.
