Morning Medical Update 10-7-21

The number of COVID patients The University of Kansas Health System is slightly lower today. 15 with the active virus are being treated, down from 18 yesterday. Five patients are in the ICU, the same as yesterday. Four are on ventilators, the same as yesterday. 36 other patients are still hospitalized because of COVID but are out of the acute infection phase, the same yesterday. That’s a total of 51 patients, down from 54 yesterday. HaysMed reports 18 total patients, the same as yesterday. On today’s Morning Medical Update, we had more about the research side of monoclonal antibodies with Dr. Mario Castro, vice chair of Clinical and Translational Research at the KU School of Medicine. We were also joined by Amber Styles, a research trial participant, who described how the monoclonal antibody treatment helped her with COVID.