Local hospitals continue to fill while COVID cases plateau
EVERETT — COVID-19’s fifth wave may have reached a plateau in Snohomish County, but local hospitals are still treating record numbers of patients sick with the virus.
The county’s latest two-week case rate shows 469 new infections per 100,000 people. Last week’s adjusted total was 470 cases per 100,000 — the highest recorded during the pandemic.
“The good news is the rapid increases that brought us to this point seem to have leveled off over the last couple of weeks,” Snohomish Health District health officer Dr. Chris Spitters said during a Tuesday media briefing. “The bad news is we have leveled off at an extremely high transmission level, as high as we’ve ever seen during the pandemic.
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In recent weeks, the number of COVID-19 patients at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett has ranged between 80 and 90, Redick said. Of those, between 20 and 30 are in the intensive care unit.
About 75% of people hospitalized there are unvaccinated, he added. When it comes to patients in the intensive care unit, upwards of 96% haven’t received their shots.
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