SEARCH THE HOSPITALS ARE DEALING WITH DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE BUSIER THAN EVER IN THE FIGHT AGAITNS COVID-19. THIS HAS NOT GONE AWAY. YOU KNOW, THE DTAEL VARIANT IS HERE AND IT’S STRONGER CATHERINE. KENNEDY IS A REGISTERED NUERS AND PRESIDENT OF THE CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION. WE’RE SEARCHING, YOU KNOW, I WORK AT ROSEVILLE AND WE ARE CLOSE TO CAPACITY THE COVID-19 PATIENTS ARE OVERWHELMINGLY UNVACCINATED OUR ER WAS INUNDATED WITH PATIENTS TO THE POT INWHERE WE ACTUALLY YOU KNOW, AND THIS IS JUST NOT AT KAERIS BUT OTHER YOU KNOW MEDICAL CENTERS AROUND US HAVING THE TENTS PUTP U BECAUSE THERE’S JUST NOT ENOUGH. YOU KNOW ROOM IN OUR ERS PLACER COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DIRECTOR, DR.OB R OLDHAM CONFIRMS THE SURGE IS COUNTYWIDE THE MOST HOSPITALIZATIONSHA TT WE’VE SEEN IN THE PANDEMIC THE MOST ICU HOSPITALIZATIONS AND A CHMU YOUNGER GROUP OF PEOPLE BEING HOSPITAL. AS NOW THERE WERE 208 PEOPLE WITH COVID-19 AND PLACER COUNTY HOSPITALS DURING THE LAST PEAK TINHE WINTER YESTERDAY THE COUNTY REACHED 220. ICU NUMBERS ARE ALSO REACHING ALL-TIME HIGHS AT 47 PEOEPL IN THE ICU YESTERDAY COMPARED TO 34 LAST WINTER NOT ALLHE T PEOPLE BEING TREATED HERE IN PLACER COUNTY HOSPITALS ARE RESIDENTS HERE IN FACT L AITTLE LESS THAN HALF OF THE PEOPLE IN HOSPITALS AND IN THE ICU IN THE AREA ACTUALLY LIVE IN PLACER COUNTY IN ROSEVILLE, LIZ. AMITRI, KCRA 3 NEWS WE DID REACH OUT TO HOSPITALS AND SEE IF THEY’RE POSTPONING THE ELECTIVE SURGERIES AND OTHER PROCEDURES THAT ARE NOT RELATED TO COVID9-1 LIKE THEY HAD TO DURING THE LAST SURGE OF CASES KAISER SAYS IT’S ONLY HAD TO RESCHEDULE A SMALL NUMBER OF NON-URGENT PROCEDURES SUTTER HEALTH SAYS IN A FEW MAY HAVE BEEN POSTPONED UC DAVIS HEALTH SAYS
COVID-19 hospitalizations reach all-time high in Placer County
Updated: 8:25 PM PDT Aug 24, 2021
Placer County has more people in its hospitals and in the ICU now than it ever has during the pandemic.According to the Placer County Public Health Department, 220 people were admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 on Monday compared to 208 on December 29 during the winter surge.Last week, the county also surpassed its previous peak of 34 people with COVID-19 in the ICU from Jan. 9. That number has continued to rise, hitting an all-time high of 47 Monday.”It’s overwhelmingly unvaccinated folks,” said Dr. Rob Oldham, health officer and director of Health & Human Services for Placer County. “I just toured Sutter Roseville yesterday, and it’s been about 90% of the people coming in requiring hospitalization are unvaccinated and definitely a much younger group of folks.”Not all of the people being treated in those area hospitals are from there. Placer County Public Health said 22 of the 47 people in the ICU yesterday and 100 of the 220 in hospitals overall were Placer County residents.RELATED | COVID-19 in California: Track cases, vaccinations, delta variant updates and testing information
ROSEVILLE, Calif. —
Placer County has more people in its hospitals and in the ICU now than it ever has during the pandemic.
According to the Placer County Public Health Department, 220 people were admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 on Monday compared to 208 on December 29 during the winter surge.
Last week, the county also surpassed its previous peak of 34 people with COVID-19 in the ICU from Jan. 9. That number has continued to rise, hitting an all-time high of 47 Monday.
“It’s overwhelmingly unvaccinated folks,” said Dr. Rob Oldham, health officer and director of Health & Human Services for Placer County. “I just toured Sutter Roseville yesterday, and it’s been about 90% of the people coming in requiring hospitalization are unvaccinated and definitely a much younger group of folks.”
Not all of the people being treated in those area hospitals are from there. Placer County Public Health said 22 of the 47 people in the ICU yesterday and 100 of the 220 in hospitals overall were Placer County residents.