Summit County’s incidence rate has slowly but steadily climbed throughout July. Despite the rising case numbers, health officials have stressed that Summit County will not move to a more restrictive level unless hospital capacity is threatened.
Hospital occupancy — the percentage of total beds occupied at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center — is currently 29.4%. There are 34 in-patient beds at the medical center. The goal, according to Summit County Public Health
, is to keep bed occupancy at 80% or lower. The highest occupancy the hospital has reached so far in July is 41.9%.
Summit County’s seven-day cumulative incidence rate reached blue levels on July 14, meaning there were over 100 new positive cases per 100,000 residents over the previous week. On Thursday, July 22, the incidence rate was 122.68.