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SLO County health workers see increase in hospitalization due to COVID-19

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September 3, 2021 6:49 pm
Published 12:03 pm

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Healthcare workers in San Luis Obispo County are seeing an uptick in hospitalizations due to another COVID-19 surge.

At Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in SLO, nurses are seeing more COVID patients than before.

"We are really experiencing the surge," said Sierra Vista's Director of Nursing for Critical Care Aaron Thorne. "Probably about 95% of our patients being admitted to the COVID wing are unvaccinated patients."

Hospital staff said the average number of COVID patients in Sierra Vista's ICU is 10 to 15 per day.

The director said that is a lot of people.

As of Tuesday, SLO County had a total of 1,703 active COVID-19 cases, 20 of which are in the Intensive Care Unit.

For more information on COVID updates in the county, click here.

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