Published: Monday, 14 December 2020 14:19
Ventura County Public Health Officer Dr. Robert Levin reported that there is a record 49 COVID-19 patients in the ICU on Monday, leaving just 1.4 percent of all ICU beds available across the county including surge capacity beds. (That) 1.4 percent might be one patient that would fill up the last of our ICU beds in our county, Levin said.
The county also zoomed past its previous COVID-19 hospitalization record of 155 set on Friday, with 204 hospitalized with the virus on Monday.
Levin said: “We are on a surge that makes the previous surge we saw look small. COVID is running so rampant in our county that one out of every 10 COVID tests that we run are positive. I think we can all remember when not even one out of 100 were positive. It’s too easy to run into someone with COVID nowadays and not know you’re being exposed.”
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