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Dr. Melissa Simonson Encourages All Northland Residents to Receive the COVID Vaccine When Available
December 11, 2020
DULUTH, Minn. – At Essentia Health in Duluth, capacity is stretched thin with both COVID patients and the normal patient population.
Dr. Melissa Simonson, section chair of hospitalist services at Essentia Health, says over the last two weeks they have seen a slight improvement in the number of COVID patients.
Right now, 20-25 percent of regular medical patients are COVID positive, and 30-35 percent of ICU patients are COVID positive.
“Despite the stability that we’ve seen over the past few weeks, we still are within that window of a Thanksgiving surge we are anticipating,” said Dr. Simonson.