WINONA, Minn. – The Thanksgiving surge in CoVid hospitalizations has ebbed at the Winona hospital, said Rachelle Schultz, president of Winona Health. “Last week things opened up pretty well,” Schultz in a KWNO interview. “We’re sitting really in a better place than we were closer to Thanksgiving or just before Thanksgiving.” In November, Schultz said, hospitalizations rose sharply, then again after the Thanksgiving holiday because people were out celebrating. Schultz worries, however, that a new surge may show from the December hoidays in a a week or two. She is concerned too that the new CoVid Omicron variant may sideline staff further and strain hospital capacity. A new surge may be offset may by offset, however, by new federal guidelines that include shorter isolation windows for vaccinated people who test positive for the virus but are asymptomatic.
