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Cookeville Regional Medical Center has seen a slight increase in COVID cases following the Thanksgiving holiday.
CEO Paul Korth said that they had nine patients over the weekend and have since grown to 19 as of Tuesday.
“So we’ve seen a small uptick, so yes I’m predicting that over the holidays we will see an increase,” Korth said. “I think this is going to be kind of an ever ebb and flow where it’s up for a couple of weeks and down for a couple weeks, up for a couple weeks and down for a couple weeks.”
Just two weeks after Thanksgiving last year, CRMC saw 64 patients being treated for COVID-19. 13 of those cases were in intensive care with 8 patients on ventilators. Korth said that according to doctors at the hospital, there have not been any patients admitted with symptoms in line with those of the new variant.
Korth said that it’s hard to model and track these kinds of things. He said that they have tried to use some national data and what’s going on in other communities.
“But it has been so difficult because it is such an unpredictable type variant of what’s going around right now,” Korth said.
