Wednesday also brought another day of record-level new infections.
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That’s up by more than 350 from early in the week. Pennsylvania’s 14-day moving average of hospitalizations rose to 4,576 on Thursday, the highest level since late January, according to state health department data. It was less than 2,600 in mid-November. Thursday’s COVID-19 hospitalizations included 976 in intensive care and 608 on breathing ventilators.
Still, lack of staff is the biggest barrier to meeting the surge, according to multiple central Pennsylvania doctors and hospital executives.Pennsylvania also had 16,765 confirmed COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, the second record-setting day in a row.
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