Dr. George Morris

COVID-19 numbers are back up at St. Cloud Hospital this month but only slightly. Dr. George Morris from CentraCare joined me on WJON this week. He says they have 12 positive COVID patients within their CentraCare facilities with 2 of those in the St. Cloud Hospital ICU/Critical Care Unit.

For the past 2 years St. Cloud Hospital and CentraCare has been busy with COVID-19 patients. This week according to CentraCare spokesman, Dr. George Morris, St. Cloud Hospital has just 10 people hospitalized with COVID-19 and just 1 person in the ICU/Critical Care unit.

CentraCare has 25 COVID-19 positive patients throughout their Central Minnesota facilities this week with just 2 people in the ICU/Critical Care unit at St. Cloud Hospital. CentraCare spokesman Dr. George Morris joined me on WJON this week. He says these numbers are similar to the COVID numbers they had within CentraCare last August.

The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been the predominant variant over the past couple of months in Central Minnesota. Dr. George Morris from CentraCare joined me on WJON today. He says the Omicron variant to proven to trigger more break thru cases of COVID-19 than the Delta variant did.

Another positive sign this week at St. Cloud Hospital in regards to COVID-19. CentraCare spokesman Dr. George Morris joined me on WJON this week. He says St. Cloud Hospital has just 7 COVID-19 patients in their ICU/Critical Care unit compared to 22 the week before.

The COVID-19 numbers at St. Cloud Hospital are about the same this week as last week but Dr. George Morris is optimistic our local COVID numbers will decrease dramatically over the next 6 to 8 weeks. Morris says they have 74 people at St. Cloud Hospital with COVID with 22 of those in the ICU/critical care unit.

The COVID-19 Omicron variant is in the St. Cloud community. That according to CentraCare spokesman Dr. George Morris. Morris joined me on WJON today. He says of the people they have been testing in the past 2 weeks approximately 30% are testing positive for COVID-19.

ICU/Critical Care COVID-19 numbers remain high this week at St. Cloud Hospital and within CentraCare. That according to CentraCare spokesman Dr. George Morris. He joined me on WJON again this week. He says they have 44 positive COVID-19 patients at St. Cloud Hospital in their ICU/Critical Care unit with 41 of those on ventilators.

CentraCare and St. Cloud Hospital continue to see a surge of COVID-19 patients. CentraCare spokesman Dr. George Morris joined me on WJON today. He says they now have 133 COVID patients within CentraCare with 110 of those at St. Cloud Hospital.

COVID-19 numbers at St. Cloud Hospital and within CentraCare are trending up again this week. CentraCare spokesman Dr. George Morris joined me again this week on WJON. He says CentraCare has 136 positive COVID-19 patients within their facilities with 102 of those at St. Cloud Hospital.