COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio may be plateauing in terms of the number of available hospital beds reported used to treat COVID-19 throughout the state.
Each week, Spectrum News 1 speaks with Eye on Ohio: Ohio Center for Journalism about the latest hospital bed data. The organization collects the data from the state health department and looks for possible trends.
The latest data was reported to Eye on Ohio on April 30. The data shows 1,991 available Med/Surg beds. The beds are occupied by the average patient hospitalized for COVID-19. The data also shows 441 intensive care unit beds were available on the same day.
These numbers are a slight dip from the week before. The Ohio Department of Health reported 2,102 available Med/Surg beds and 537 available ICU beds on April 23.
Lucia Walinchus is the executive director for Eye On Ohio.
“Obviously, anytime you have a virus, usually it multiplies exponentially, so just the fact that we are able to hold it down. That says a lot. It kept growing and growing and growing and we had this dip with that vaccine. Now we’ve sort of reached a plateau. My prediction is that we would stay pretty flat for the near future,” Walinchus said.
Both Dayton and Cleveland experienced the brunt of the virus.
In Dayton, there were 159 Med/Surg beds on April 30. There were 161 the week before. In Cleveland, there were 119 Med/Surg beds available on April 30 and 237 available the week before.
Overall, the latest numbers report a high of about 4,300 available Med/Surg beds throughout the state and a low of about 1,911 from April 23 thru April 30.
Click here to view the latest data from Eye on Ohio.
