Johnson County COVID-19 hospitalizations keep climbing, and officials say that’s still due to Delta, not Omicron

Local hospitalization trends in Johnson County and the Kansas City metro continue to show a troubling upward trajectory heading into the second Christmas holiday being celebrated under a pandemic cloud. The University of Kansas Health System said Wednesday that its number of COVID-19 patients continues to rise, topping 80, with all but two patients in its wards unvaccinated. Likewise, AdventHealth Shawnee Mission officials said in the last month alone they have doubled their number of COVID patients. As of Wednesday afternoon, 40 active COVID patients were in the hospital, said Morgan Shandler, AdventHealth Kansas City director of communications.
Source: Shawnee Mission Post