Coronavirus cases trending in opposite directions in local counties - WCPO

“I was actually recently looking at our number of hospitalized COVID positive patients from 30 days ago, and we’ve doubled the number of patients in the hospital with COVID,” Bricking said.

“We’ve also doubled the number of patients that are on a ventilator; we’ve doubled the number of patients that are in our ICU,” Bricking said.

“So what we’re seeing is certainly a rise in the community of the number of patients that are positive for COVID, but also that’s resulting in sicker patients that are requiring hospitalization.”.

“For over a week now, our reproductive number has been at one or just below one,” Hamilton County Public Health Commissioner Greg Kesterman said, referencing the average number of people who become infected after contact with a positive case.