Daily Stats (updated 5/4/2020 at 5:30 pm)
Today’s Stats
Lee Health has:
- 100 COVID-19 patients isolated in our hospitals
- Submitted 11,393 specimens for testing
- Discharged 250 patients
- 173 employees quarantined; 24 employees exposed at work and positive with COVID-19
- Click here for graphs showing a running total of specimens collected for testing and positive cases hospitalized.
Today’s News
A Message from Dr. Larry Antonucci
Today marks a new beginning for our community as we resume elective surgical procedures and reintroduce more in-person medical appointments at Lee Health, and as restaurants and retailers reopen. We anticipate that it will be about 10-14 days before we know if the virus has started to spread more quickly with the loosening of stay-at-home restrictions. So, while we are excited about steps toward recovery, there are still unknowns. Even still, there are a few things we do know: Lee Health is ready to welcome back patients and will do so with additional safety precautions; we are ready to be nimble and flexible in the reopening process to ensure the absolute safety of our staff, patients and community. We also recognize that the coronavirus is going to be with us for the foreseeable future, so reopening does not mean a return to normal and cannot lead to complacency. We all must continue protecting ourselves and each other with physical distancing, wearing masks or face coverings when in public, and continuing to practice good hand hygiene.
Show Your Support for Lee Health Nurses
Wednesday, May 6 is National Nurses Day and kicks off National Nurses Week 2020. This year’s theme is “Year of the Nurse,” in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. This celebration, and Nurses Week, in particular, is meant to put the spotlight on the contributions nurses make to hospitals, health care systems and clinics around the world. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen even more the critical value of nurses, and trust in nurses has risen even more during this challenging and uncertain time.
Join us this week as we celebrate our Lee Health nurses. Share photos and messages of appreciation for our nurses on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter using #YearOfTheExceptionalLeeNurse.
Eating Well for Mental Health; Join Us for Mental Health Monday
Today’s Kids’ Minds Matter Facebook Live features Jose Colon, M.D., adult and pediatric sleep medicine specialist. In “Kids in the Kitchen: The Benefits of Healthy Cooking on Physical and Mental Health,” Dr. Colon will discuss how food and mood are interrelated. He also will explain phytonutrients, which are found in vegetables and fruits, and he will share how getting children involved in the kitchen can increase their consumption of healthy food. Tune in today at 6 p.m., here.
A Reminder About this COVID-19 Update
This week, this COVID-19 Update will be distributed today, Wednesday and Friday.
World Health Organization Update
SITUATION IN NUMBERS total (new) cases in last 24 hours
(last updated 10:00 AM CET 5/4/2020)
239 604 deaths (976)
6258 deaths (29)
143 987 deaths (1320)
2463 deaths (88)
7971 deaths (100)
77 827 deaths (-582)
1085 deaths (21)
- WHO has delivered additional medicines to the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the Solidarity Trial, a global effort to find an effective treatment for COVID-19. Find more on this here.
- Polio disease surveillance teams are reaching into the most far-flung places of the globe to address the COVID-19 pandemic. An article on polio teams working in Somalia is available here.
- An update of WHO partner coordination is today’s ‘Subject in Focus’ below.