JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — One other youngster battling COVID-19 has been admitted into Niswonger Youngsters’s Hospital, in response to Ballad Well being on Friday.
This follows as well being officers have blamed the surge in COVID-19 circumstances on these eligible to obtain the photographs who’ve but to take action.
The well being system launched its newest “COVID-19 Scorecard,” which tracks COVID-19 numbers and charges throughout the 21-county service space.
Friday’s replace confirmed a rise in hospitalizations together with an increase in these receiving remedy within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Seventy-eight individuals are at the moment relying on ventilators in Ballad Well being services as they struggle off the virus.
The area’s vaccination fee inched upward by simply 0.4% from Thursday, Ballad revealed.
The service space stories that 41% of the service space inhabitants is absolutely vaccinated. This fee has stayed under the statewide averages of each Tennessee and Virginia.
Ballad used state-reported knowledge to disclose that there have been 64 COVID-19-related deaths in its 21-county service space up to now seven days.
The next is a breakdown of Thursday’s COVID-19 knowledge supplied by Ballad Well being:
- Whole variety of COVID-19 sufferers within the hospital: 396 (+3)
- Whole variety of COVID-19 PUIs (affected person beneath investigation): 19 (-4)
- Whole COVID-19 admissions: 49 (+3)
- Whole COVID-19 discharges: 46 (-3)
- COVID-19 sufferers within the Intensive Care Unit: 103 (+2)
- COVID-19 sufferers on a ventilator: 78 (-4)
- Pediatric sufferers in Niswonger Youngsters’s Hospital: 2 (+1)
- % of inhabitants absolutely vaccinated: 41.0% (+0.4%)
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