{"id":13593,"date":"2021-07-26T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T19:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=13593"},"modified":"2021-07-26T15:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T19:17:24","slug":"covid-19-hospitalizations-near-record-high-at-lakeland-regional-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/07\/26\/covid-19-hospitalizations-near-record-high-at-lakeland-regional-health\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 hospitalizations near-record high at Lakeland Regional Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polk County is seeing COVID hospitalizations near record highs with the sudden uptick in infections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19.jpg?resize=304%2C237&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6748\" width=\"304\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19.jpg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19.jpg?resize=768%2C600&amp;ssl=1 768w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mylrh.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center<\/a>\u00a0had 179 people hospitalized for COVID-19 as of 1 p.m. Monday, of which 11 individuals required the use of a ventilator,\u00a0according to spokesperson Sandra Roddenberry. That number nears the medical center&#8217;s record high of about 190 patients reported so far during the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Polk, there were 2,514 new infections reported last week as the county&#8217;s positivity rate skyrocketed to 18.6%, according to the Florida Department of Health&#8217;s Friday report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Approximately 51% of Polk residents age 12 and older have received&nbsp;at least one dose of a COVID vaccine, according to the state health department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland Regional Health has not announced any voluntary reduction of services or change in its visitor policies as of The Ledger&#8217;s print publication deadline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polk County is seeing COVID hospitalizations near record highs with the sudden uptick in infections.&nbsp; Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center\u00a0had 179 people hospitalized for COVID-19 as of 1 p.m. Monday,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[875],"class_list":["post-13593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-covid-19-hospitalizations-near-record-high-at-lakeland-regional"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}