As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, so do hospitalizations. More than 1,700 Hoosiers were in the hospital with COVID-19 symptoms as of Thursday, the highest number since January.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box says the biggest challenge for hospitals right now isn’t space but staffing. “That’s a critical issue, not just in the State of Indiana but around the United States,” she said during a press conference Wednesday, “and we’ve lost a lot of public health officials related to that, also.”
Box says that most of those being hospitalized are older adults, but the number of kids being admitted is also up. “Right now, it doesn’t appear that the Delta variant is more severe, necessarily, in our children,” she explains, “but just by the nature of the fact that we have so many more cases in our zero-to-19 age group, we have more youth hospitalized.”
She says that hospitals have gotten very good at working together over the last 18 months, to make sure everyone gets the care that they need.
