Garland County and Hot Springs officials reported 15 COVID-19 deaths this past weekend at the two Hot Springs hospitals.
Representatives from CHI St. Vincent and National Park Medical Center made the report at Monday’s meeting of the Hot Springs/Garland County COVID-19 Task Force.
The hospitals continue to have high numbers of COVID patients, although they are down slightly from last week's more than 110 COVID patients with a total of 98 confirmed cases and four PUIs (persons under investigation) at the time of the meeting.
There were 29 COVID patients in the ICU on Monday between the two hospitals.
LifeNet's Jason Gartner shared that one day last week they had more activity than in any single day in the 15 years he has been with the ambulance service.
"We are very, very busy. That, of course, translates to the hospitals, as well," said Gartner, who added that drop-off times at hospitals have been higher than normal over the past month. "We've got great working relationships with the hospitals, and we're coming up with some innovative ideas of how we can minimize (drop-off times), but sometimes it just cannot be helped."
Garland County Health Officer Dr. Gene Shelby said that although the numbers do not look good at all for the county, the rate of growth diminished somewhat for the week of August 8 - 15, pointing to the possibility that the county may be getting close to the peak of this Delta-fueled spike. There were 618 new cases reported last week, with an average of...
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