Deaconess, Owensboro Hospitalization Numbers Released

Evansville IN

09 September, 2021

12:36 PM

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By Steve Burger, WNIN Sept. 9, 2021 The latest COVID hospitalization numbers show a slight decrease at Deaconess in Evansville, while patients continue to increase in the Owensboro Health system. In Evansville, Deaconess Hospital Tuesday reported a slight decrease in COVID patients, with 152 total, down from 171 a week ago. The percentage of unvaccinated, hospitalized patients is up a little to eighty nine percent. In Owensboro, all Owensboro Health facilities combined reported seventy eight COVID patients on Tuesday. In a Facebook post, they reported that over the past two weeks, all three Owensboro Health hospitals reached their highest number of COVID-19 inpatients since the beginning of the pandemic. The patients also continue to skew younger. Since vaccines became widely available in April of this year, Owensboro Health Regional Hospital has had fifty five deaths that were COVID-19 positive, of which eighty seven percent were unvaccinated. A combination of crew safety and uncertainty over events being cancelled forced the decision. Five new COVID-19 related deaths and more than 700 new infections have been announced in western Kentucky. Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, a tool created by a University of Evansville ChangeLab class has been logging and archiving daily county by county data for a seven state area of the Midwest WNIN is the NPR/PBS affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We serve Southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois from our multimedia facility located on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. For the past several years, the recognized quality of our local news has placed us among the best small market radio news organizations in the nation.