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Statewide, hospitalization numbers have jumped to more than 1,300 patients.
Nearly half of the ICU patients across the state are hospitalized in southwest Missouri.
The Delta variant shows no mercy. It s quicker and making patients sicker.
Steve Edwards, President and CEO of Cox Health, said back in the middle of May, hospitalization numbers were at 15. By end of May, it almost doubled to 29.
As of Thursday, it was at 139 COVID-19 patients. It took about 7 months in the first two waves to build our census that high, in which took 7 weeks for this wave, he explains.
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