Records show coronavirus patients filling beds, intensive care units at area hospitals Share Updated: 6:33 PM EST Dec 9, 2020 Share Updated: 6:33 PM EST Dec 9, 2020
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Show Transcript TONIGHT FROM THE NORTHSIDE. PAUL: TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED, IN LATE SEPTEMBER CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS TOOK UP JUST 1% OF THE BEDS HERE AT ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL. BY LATE NOVEMBER, THAT NUMBER WAS UP TO 14%. BUT THE INCREASE HAS BEEN EVEN MORE DRAMATIC AT OTHER AREA HOSPITALS. COVID PATIENTS HAVE SURGED IN AREA HOSPITALS DURING THE PAST TWO MONTHS. FROM LATE SEPTEMBER TO LATE NOVEMBER, THE PERCENTAGE OF COVID PATIENTS INCREASED FROM 1% TO 16% AT UPMC PASSAVANT. FROM 4% TO 27% AT EXCELA WESTMORELAND. AND FROM 9% TO 32% AT EXCELA LATROBE. EXCELA SAYS ABOUT 40% OF ALL ITS CURRENT PATIENTS HAVE COVID. WE’RE MAKING CHANGES ALMOST REALLY MINUTE BY MINUTE, SOMETIMES MOVING STAFF FROM ONE TO ANOTHER, SOMETIMES MOVING A PATIENT WHO PRESEN