COVID-19 was the third state-wide hospitalization on Sunday in six days, and the number of patients in the intensive care unit and ventilator increased.
Last week, infectious diseases in Pennsylvania increased by 54%, deaths increased by 7%, and hospitalizations increased by 2%, according to data tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Johns Hopkins University. ..
Nationally, cases increased by 2%, deaths decreased by 12%, and hospitalizations decreased by 1%, according to the data.
The State Department of Health reported 518 new infections on Sunday, recording at least 1,050 infections for the first time since March 3-5 for the third consecutive day.
Locally, there were seven new infections. Five in Northumberland County and two in Union County. Union County hasn’t had more than one in a day since March 29th.
There were no new COVID-19-related deaths in Valley County, for a total of seven people throughout the state.
According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 64 of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania had low levels of COVID-19 (including all four in the valley). No county has registered high levels of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania for the fifth straight week. Nationally, there were 19 high COVID counties, 123 medium COVID counties, and 3,082 low COVID counties. In Pennsylvania, the COVID levels in the Sullivan, Susquehanna, and Bradford counties were moderate.
The CDC is a combination of three indicators: new COVID-19 hospitalizations per 100,000 population over the last 7 days, the percentage of manned hospitalized patients per 100,000 COVID-19 patients, and the total of new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the last 7 days. To find out. 7th — COVID-19 Determines community level.
The CDC reported that 77.3% of Pennsylvania residents over the age of 18 were fully vaccinated and 67.9% of all residents were fully vaccinated.
hospitalization
As of noon on Sunday, there were 413 COVID hospitalizations across the state, an increase of five from Saturday’s report.
There are 59 patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), an increase of 1 and 45 breathing using a ventilator, an increase of 1 from Saturday.
There were 17 patients who were hospitalized locally. There were 16 patients in Danville’s Gaisinger, one in Lewisburg’s Evangelical Community Hospital, and none in Gaisinger Shamokin. Evangelical reported that the only patient was in the ICU, treated with mechanical ventilation and not vaccinated.
Gaisinger’s main campus in Danville had five patients on the ICU and four on the ventilator. Thursday, Geisinger announced that it will remove further restrictions on visits..
The COVID-19 data for all Valley Hospitals have not changed from the Friday and Saturday reports.
State facilities, prisons
Under the direction of the Valley’s Social Welfare Department, there were no active incidents at any state facility. As of Sunday morning, DHS has not reported any cases to either the Serins Grove Center at Danville State Hospital or the male or female units of the North Central Secure Treatment Unit.
Even at the state correctional facility in Coal Township, there were no active incidents, according to the State Corrections Bureau (DOC). Across the state, there were 14 prisoner cases and 22 employee cases, including Saturday. Seven prisons across the state had inmates’ cases as of Sunday morning, and 13 prisons had staff infections as reported on Saturday.
The Federal Bureaus of Lewisberg and Allenwood were Level 1 operational levels of COVID mitigation and the lowest level of amendment to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ mitigation plans. This means that the prison resumed normal operation while prisoners and personnel wore masks indoors. There was a prisoner case at USP-Lewisberg, and no cases at three Allenwood facilities on Sunday morning. It’s the same number reported on Saturday.
As of Sunday morning, there were 59 federal prisons at level 1 (minimum) nationwide, 23 at level 2 and 16 at level 3.
The operational level of the facility (Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3) is based on the facility’s COVID-19 medical isolation rate, the total percentage of completed vaccination series of staff and prisoners, and the infection rate in each county. increase.
At each level, following the BOP Pandemic Guidance, you can make changes to infection prevention procedures or operations such as inmate programming and services to mitigate the risk and spread of COVID-19.
