Patient Count Up To 169 At Ballad Health Care Facilities

Still on the topic of COVID19, Ballad Health officials released figures Thursday that show 169 patients are now being treated for COVID19 in Ballad facilities. The positivity rate is now at just under fifteen percent. There have been 28 new admissions. Ballad says 49 patients are now in the health care providers Intensive Care Units with well more than half of those patients on ventilators. 21 patients have died from COVID19 at Ballad facilities in the last seven days.