UPDATES FROM INCIDENT COMMAND:

• Covid Vaccines:  Major Hospital expects to begin receiving vaccines sometime in January for public distribution.  Starting this week, our eligible staff began receiving their vaccines at Hancock Regional Hospital in Greenfield. 
• Bamlanivimab “Bam” monoclonal drug for Covid treatment.  By the end of the day, we will have infused 164 patients with this Eli Lilly monoclonal drug.  We gave a Regeneron infusion to a patient yesterday and that patient is doing well as of today.  Regeneron is a different type of antibody drug used to reduce or stop the viral load in a Covid positive patient.  We have a sufficient supply of both Regeneron and Bamlanivimab for our current needs.        

• MHP TESTING STATUS:
  • Number of NEW positive results: 55 new positive cases since 12/16/2020
    • Out of the 55 new positive cases, 11 patients required inpatient care and 44 remained outpatient. 

• MHP INPATIENT STATUS:
  • Current number of 3^rd floor inpatients:  39 and 6 of those patients are in the Critical Care Unit (CCU)
    • Number of available 3^rd floor beds: 1, but we expect a few discharges later today which will free up some inpatient beds.
  • Currently, we have 20 inpatients that tested positive for COVID.

• MHP EMERGENCY DEPT STATUS:
  • Number of total ER patients in last 24 hours: 60 patients

• VENT STATUS:
  • Number of vents currently in use and number of vents available:
    • We have 1 ventilator(s) in use and 3 BiPAPs in use, 3 trilogy units are in use.  This leaves us with 16 ventilation units available.