By John Estridge
According to the Indiana Department of Health website on the different counties COVID-19 statistics, Franklin County has suffered its tenth death blamed on the virus.
The Franklin County Department of Health and the Franklin County COVID-19 Task Force have not released neither information on the new spike in COVID-19 positive test result numbers nor information on the latest death in FC
On Friday, July 31, the number of deaths attributed to the virus was at nine, with the ninth reported on Friday.
Also, the number of positive cases in Franklin County increased to 197, up six from Friday’s total of 191.
In Union County, the number of positive cases, remains at 28, and no county residents have perished to COVID-19-related causes.
The website www.coronavirus.in.gov also contains information about the number of Intensive Care Unit beds available as well as the number of ventilators available. Both numbers bode well.
With the ICU usage, about half of the total beds are still available. Of the about 50 percent in use at this point, only 14.6 percent are taken up by COVID-19 patients.
On the ventilator side, 15.8 percent of the ventilators in the state are in use with just 2.8 percent of that number attributable to COVID-19-related patients. That means 84.2 percent of the ventilators in the state are still available.