COVID-19: It's unclear if cases have peaked, but Cincinnati's hospitals are in a crunch

Jan 14

Friday's data from the Cincinnati region's hospitals paints a grim picture of how they're facing an influx of patients battling COVID-19 and the unprecedented stress it's putting on their systems.

The number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 rose to 1,006 as of Friday morning, according to Tiffany Mattingly, vice president of clinical strategies for the Health Collaborative, the coordinating group for the region's 40 hospitals. As of Friday, 188 patients are in ICU beds and 150 are on ventilators.

All regional counties remain higher than the highest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classification for total new cases and for the percentage of positive tests.

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