Kovid-19 is spreading at an alarming rate in Ohio and across the country, according to experts. Locally, the two tri-state counties are seeing a trend of numbers in opposite directions.
In the past two weeks, more people in parts of Butler County have tested positive than elsewhere in the state. During the same period, Hamilton County saw a decrease in the number of its new coronavirus cases.
The president of Atrium Medical Center, Dr. “When you look at the disease that these patients have, the heart can be pathogenic,” said Keith Bricking.
He said he knows patience is worn thin, but that growing number is urging people in his community to stay on the road.
“I was recently looking at the number of covid-positive patients admitted to our hospital a few days ago, and we’ve doubled the number of patients in the hospital with covid,” Bricking said.
Many Butler County zip codes topped the state in new COVID cases, according to data from the Ohio Department of Health.
“We’ve also doubled the number of patients on the ventilator, we’ve doubled the number of patients in our ICU,” Bricking said. “So, what we’re seeing is definitely an increase in the number of patients in the community who are positive for Kovid, but it’s also for the sick patients who need to be hospitalized as a result.”
Bricking said he’s seeing a lot of new cases because people let their guards down.
“Specifically, people are at work, they take off their masks, they’re in the lunch room together, they keep their masks off for 10-15 minutes, and then all of a sudden the whole team that was in the break room turned on. Is gone. Positive, ”he said.
Some cases are mild, while others become more serious and infect younger people.
In Hamilton County, hospitalization is also a big concern, but there are fewer new covid cases overall than last week.
“For more than a week now, our fertility numbers have been one or less,” said Hamilton County Public Health Commissioner Greg Kesterman, referring to the average number of people infected after contact with a positive case.
“Today we have 0.97 for Hamilton County and 1.0 for the region,” he said.
Local health leaders made it clear that they were not using the progress as an excuse to join the fight against the virus.
“We are trying to develop some plans and we are working with the medical staff on what it feels like to shut down services or slow down services, and how we will implement them. But we have not yet limited any inings to the hospital at this time, ”Bricking said.
He said his team stays awake and fights to avoid a bad situation.
Health experts in both counties said it was too early to determine how the Thanksgiving gathering would positively affect the number of tests, but were preparing hard in the next few weeks.
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