Lee Health reports 28 COVID-19 patients isolated in hospital system

Lee Health has released its updated COVID-19 numbers for Wednesday.

• As of Wednesday morning, there are 28 COVID-19 patients isolated in Lee Health hospitals (inpatient).
• Of these patients, one of them is a child being treated at Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida.
• On Tuesday, there were four new COVID-19 hospital admissions and eight COVID-19 discharges.
• 71% of ventilators and 17% of ICU rooms are available for use. There is one COVID-19 patient on a ventilator and two in the intensive care unit.
• On Wednesday morning, census was at 96% of staffed operational bed capacity.
• Since the start of the pandemic, 1,211 patients have died inside Lee Health hospitals to COVID-19, including zero yesterday.

Lee Health offers COVID-19 vaccines for anyone 12 and older at its Community Vaccination Clinic, located inside Gulf Coast Medical Center. It’s open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and there is no cost for the vaccine. Anyone can make an appointment online by visiting www.leehealth.org.

Vaccinations schedules for children aged 5-11 will be announced in the coming days.

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