Jennie Stuart reports most COVID-19 hospitalizations since May

There were seven people hospitalized with COVID-19 on Tuesday at Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville, according to spokeswoman Jayme Tubbs. It's the largest number of patients hospitalized with the virus in a single day since May 17.

In the last week, the hospital has reported a seven-day average of five COVID-19 hospitalizations per day — up from two a month ago. The increase comes just a month and a half after the average number of virus hospitalizations dropped to zero for the first time in more than a year on June 22.

Like other hospitals across the state and in western Kentucky, Jennie Stuart has seen an uptick as the highly contagious delta variant creates a surge of COVID-19 cases nationwide.

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In mid-November, as hospitalizations grew from single to double digits, local health care workers battling stress and fatigue after fighting a public health crisis for eight months, were already stretched thin. It's now a battle they've had to wage for more than twice that long, with only the briefest of reprieves. 

At the pandemic’s peak in early January, the seven-day average of COVID-19 patients at Jennie Stuart reached 41.

>> See the latest COVID-19 data for Christian County.

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