AdventHealth to transition to green status – WESH 2 Orlando

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>> IT HAS BEEN A ROUGH COUPLE OF MONTHS, HERE AT ADVENT HEAH: BUT NOW, THEY ARE BACK TO NORMAL OPERATIONS AND WARNING PEOPLE, NOT TO BE FOOLED INTO THINKING, COVID IS OVER, AGA.IN THERE IS NO FLASHING SIGN, ANNOUNCING IT OUTSIDE ADNTVE HEALTH’S EMERGENCY ROOMBUT THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM, IS BACKO T GREEN STATUS. THIS ESSENTIALLY IS THE INDICATION THAT WE’RE BACK TO NORMALPE ORATIONS. ADVENT HEALTH REACHED A PEAK OF 17-HUNDRED COVID PATIENTINS AUGUST AND MOVED TO BLACK STATUS MEANING NON-EMERGENCY PROCEDURES, WERE DELAY.ED NOW THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM IS DOWN TO UNDER 900 OUR ICU CAPACITY CONTINUES TO IMPROVE THE NUMBER OF PEOP THAT WE’RE TAKING CARE OF AS A SYSTEM OUTSIDE THE ICU IS IMPROVIN >> WHAT ADVENT IS SEEING IS SOAL HAPPENING AT ORLANDOEA HLTH: THE SYSTEM SAID IN LATE AUGUST IT HAD 736 COVID PATIENTS: NOW, IT’S AT 426. THE FLORIDA HOSPITAL ASSOCIAON HAS BEEN KEEPING TABS ON THE NUMBERS STATEWIDE: AT THE WOTRS POINT, 17-THOUSAND FLORIDIANS WERE IN FACILITIES, FOR COVID NOW, PRESIDENT MARY MAYHEW TELLS ME, IT’S CLOSE TO 10-THOUSAND: STILL, A LOT OF PATIENTS. >> BIG REDUCTION, IN OUR PEAK, BUT WE’RE NOW AT WHERE OUR HIGHEST PREVIOUS PEAK WAS IN JULY OF 2020. >> SHE SAYS THE DROP, CABEN CHALKED UP TO COVID’S EBB AND FLOWLU PS, 70-THOUSAND PEOPLE GETTING MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY TREATMENT, WHICH CAN HELP THOSE WHO TEST POSITIVE AVOID BEING HOSPITALIZED. BUT SHE SAYS VACCINES, ARE THE BIGGEST FACTOR. >> WE KNOW THAT THERE E AROTHER VARIANTS OUT THERE, THE REMO THAT WE GET POLAONPU VACCINATED IT IS OUR BEST DEFENSE AGAINST A FUTURE SUR