patients are hospitalized. Of those, 85 are in the intensive care unit and 30 are on ventilators. There are 15% of staffed beds available and 73% of ventilators available.MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE FROM KSAT:Track daily spikes in COVID-19 cases in San Antonio, Bexar CountyTrack coronavirus cases by ZIP, age in San Antonio with interactive mapResources from…
COVID-19 cases Sunday and 2,473 backlogged cases.The additional infections bring the city’s total case count to 53,341, according to the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District.The backlogged cases are from various labs and and date ranges. The electronic lab reporting backlog is causing issues across the state, city officials said.Two new deaths within the last 14…
COVID-19 cases Saturday amid a decrease in hospitalizations due to the virus.The additional infections bring the city’s total case count to 50,760, according to the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District.No new deaths within the last 14 days were confirmed on Saturday. The COVID-19 death toll in Bexar County remains at 1,242.According to numbers on the…
Texas reports 238 more COVID-19 deaths, for total of 9,840Texas testing drops as schools reopen, prepare for footballMayor Nirenberg distributes free PPE to San Antonio businessesCopyright 2020 by KSAT - All rights reserved.About the Author:Cody KingCody King is a digital journalist for KSAT 12. She previously worked for NewsChannel 20 in Springfield, Illinois.
the city of San Antonio’s website. With 10 deaths reported on Saturday and 13 additional deaths confirmed on Sunday, a total of 23 COVID-19 related deaths were announced over the weekend.On Sunday, Bexar County’s COVID-19 case load increased as the city announced 252 additional COVID-19 cases.The additional cases bring Bexar County’s cumulative total to 42,873…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have