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Coping with COVID: Slight drop in active COVID-19 patients at KU Health reverses, ticks back up

Following a brief decline in active COVID-19 patients being treated at The University of Kansas Health System, the number of patients has bumped back up today. Tuesday totals from the health system show 94 hospitalized, up from 82 yesterday.

After a few days of declines, the number of active COVID-19 patients being treated at The University of Kansas Health System is back up today. Ninety-four people with the active virus are hospitalized, up from 82 yesterday.

Fifty-two patients are in the ICU, up from 47 yesterday. Twenty-five of those ICU patients are on ventilators today, down from 28 yesterday while 62 other patients are still hospitalized because of COVID-19 but are out of the acute infection phase, up from 59 yesterday.

The total has risen to 156 patients, up from 141 yesterday. In addition, HaysMed has a total of 28 COVID-19 inpatients, up from 25 yesterday, with 24 of those active patients and four in the recovery phase.

Doctors call this a significant jump in numbers, with admissions outnumbering discharges. They say it mirrors the increased number of post-Thanksgiving tests and the percent of positivity remains pretty high.