Ballad Health Reports Positivity Rate Remains Below 15 Percent

Ballad Health is reporting Wednesday the positivity rate for COVID19 cases at its facilities remains steady and below fifteen percent. There is more good news as the number of patients in Ballad Health Care facilities remains below 100 for the third day in a row as well. The regional health care provider says there were only nine admissions to its facilities bringing the total number of patients to 98. There are 18 patients in the Intensive Care Units and twelve patients on ventilators. Ballad has administered more than 29 thousand first doses of the COVID19 vaccine and more than 24 thousand have been given both injections as of Wednesday.