UC Health doctor: Region at 'most critical point' since pandemic started - WCPO

Evaline Alessandrini likened the amount of people in southwest Ohio who are dying from COVID-19 to a fatal bus crash happening every week.

The Chief Medical Officer at UC Health said that about 25 people in southwest Ohio are dying from COVID-19 each week.

As of Friday, more than 250 people in region 6 — Butler, Hamilton, Clermont, Warren, Clinton, Highland, Brown and Adams counties — were in the hospital with COVID-19, Alessandrini said.

Alessandrini was among several health care leaders to address the public Friday afternoon on the state of southwest Ohio amid the pandemic.

This is the highest number of people in southwest Ohio to be hospitalized since the start of the pandemic; the prior peak was 188 people hospitalized in July.

Richard Lofgren, president and CEO of UC Health, said the state of the pandemic in the region has changed dramatically since the beginning of October.