Lee Health offering booster shots, reports 31 COVID-19 patients in hospitals

Writer: Melissa Montoya
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Credit: WINK News.

Lee Health has hundreds of appointments available for those wanting to get the booster shot to boost COVID-19 immunity.

For the booster dose, patients can choose any of the three approved vaccines regardless of what the first dose was. However, immunocompromised patients must receive the vaccine they previously received.

The booster shots are offered at no additional cost. Go to https://www.leehealth.org/ to schedule an appointment.

  • As of Wednesday morning, there are 31 COVID-19 patients isolated in Lee Health hospitals (inpatient).
  • Of these patients, three of them are children being treated at Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida.
  • On Tuesday, there were seven new COVID-19 hospital admissions and 5 COVID-19 discharges.
  • 75% of ventilators and 13% of ICU rooms are available for use. There is one COVID-19 patient on a ventilator and five in the intensive care unit.
  • On Wednesday morning, census was at 93% of staffed operational bed capacity.
  • Since the start of the pandemic, 1,209 patients have died inside Lee Health hospitals to COVID-19, including 0 yesterday.

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