Ballad Reports Weekly Positive COVID-19 Rate Rises To Nearly 12 Percent…After Days Of Decline

After seeing numerous days of positive rate decline across the health care providers service area, Ballad Health has seen the positive rate for COVID-19 cases jump from a low on Monday of ten point seven percent, to a weekly high of nearly twelve percent at eleven point nine percent on Friday. The total number of patients admitted to Ballad Facilities has now risen to 73, that’s up from 69 patients on Wednesday. And on Friday, the number of patients in the Intensive Care Unit dropped to a weekly low of eleven. Ballad has delivered more than 32 thousand five hundred first dose COVID-19 vaccinations Ballad also reports thirty deaths from COVID-19 in the past week, that’s down from 69 on Wednesday.