Record number of COVID-19 patients in SD ICUs – KELOLAND.com

South Dakotas intensive care units are busier with COVID-19 patients than ever before.

Thursdays update from the Department of Health said 109 coronavirus patients were being treated in South Dakota ICUs. Thats up from 91 ICU patients with coronavirus on Sunday. Its also the highest number of ICU patients with the virus since the health department started including those numbers in its daily updates.

Many of those ICU patients are staying in the states three largest hospitals.

Thursdays update said every staffed adult ICU bed was full at both Sanford Hospital in Sioux Falls and Monument Health in Rapid City. Sanfords ICU had 28 patients with COVID-19. The Rapid City hospitals ICU had 15 patients with the virus.

Avera McKennan Hospitals staffed ICU beds were 96.6% full. Doctors were treating 35 patients with COVID-19 in Averas Sioux Falls ICU.

This isnt the first surge in COVID-19 ICU patients in South Dakota hospitals. On November 20th, 107 coronavirus patients were in intensive care.

Total hospitalizations rose slightly on Thursday, but they are not as high as they were in mid-November.

The numbers include every patient being treated in South Dakota hospitals, including people from other states. They do not include South Dakotans who are hospitalized in other states.

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