Across Massachusetts, hospitals are seeing a dramatic decline in the number of COVID-19 patients as more and more residents get vaccinated and cases plummet.
At Massachusetts General Hospital, the state’s largest hospital, there were 66 admitted COVID patients, with 19 in the ICU as of Monday, according to hospital officials. A little more than a month ago, MGH’s COVID patient load was nearly double that, and community hospitals in the region were having to redirect their sick to larger facilities amid the so-called second surge.
After the post-holiday spike in cases and hospitalizations, MGH officials last month were ready for yet another projected surge in viral activity heading into February and March given the troubling data indicating the extent of transmission within the surrounding communities.