COVID-19 UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2021:

As of today, Lee Health has:

– 619 COVID-19 patients isolated in our hospitals (inpatient).

– Of these patients, 15 of them are children being treated at Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida.

– Yesterday, we had 68 new COVID-19 hospital admissions and 68 COVID-19 discharges.

– 49% of our ventilators and 5% of our ICU rooms are available for use. We have 87 COVID-19 patients on ventilators and 110 in the intensive care unit.

– This morning, census was at 99% of staffed operational bed capacity.

– Since the start of the pandemic, 935 patients have lost their lives inside our hospitals to COVID-19, including 8 yesterday.