Ballad Reports More Than 200 Patients With COVID-19…Positivity Rate Continues To Climb

Ballad Health is reporting a total of 213 patients in the system’s facilities within the healthcare provider’s 21 county service area. Ballad’s positivity rate of 15.9 percent continues to rise and the system says it has 43 designated COVID-19 beds available. 41 patients are in the Intensive Care Unit and 27 patients are on ventilators. In the past seven days 63 individuals across the system have died from COVID-19.