ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force reminded people to wear face masks, stay at home and social distance to help with the slow of the coronavirus during a briefing on Friday.
"The truth is, preventing hospitals from becoming overwhelmed really depends on everybody outside of the hospital right now," Dr. Alexander Garza - head of the task force - said.
"So whether you're a policymaker or a parent, a governor or a grandchild, you have the power to fight this battle and ease this burden on our health care workers. You have the power to keep people from getting the virus and getting so sick that they have to be hospitalized. You have the power to get our economy back safer and sooner," he added.
The following data are the combined figures from the four major health systems (BJC HealthCare, Mercy, SSM Health, St. Luke’s Hospital) that are part of the task force, for Dec. 4.
- New hospital admissions (data lagged two days) increased from 113 yesterday to 115 today.
- The seven-day moving average of hospital admissions (data lagged two days) increased - from 112 yesterday to 113 today.
- The seven-day moving average of hospitalizations remained the same at 925 today.
- Inpatient confirmed COVID positive hospitalizations decreased – from 900 yesterday to 896 today.
- Inpatient suspected COVID positive hospitalizations decreased – from 97 yesterday to 92 today.
- The number of confirmed COVID positive patients in the ICUs decreased – from 186 yesterday to 185 today.
- The number of confirmed COVID positive patients on ventilators increased – from 125 yesterday to 128 today.
- Across the system hospitals, 136 COVID-19 patients were discharged yesterday, bringing the cumulative number of COVID-19 patients discharged to 11,395.
- Today, staffed bed hospital capacity is at 83%, an average across our task force hospitals. The ICUs are at 87% of their total staffed bed capacity.