STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
St. Luke’s Health System has made a few changes to its website’s COVID data dashboard to provide current, relevant data to help individuals, businesses and other organizations make informed decisions and behaviors.
- The “Patients in the Hospital” tab has been adjusted to show the percent of COVID positive hospitalized patients that are unvaccinated.
- A new “Intensive Care Units” tab has also been added. This new update shows the total number of patients admitted to the ICU, the total number who are COVID positive, as well as the percentage of ICU patients that are COVID positive and unvaccinated.
The dashboard data is complete for the previous day and represents a point in time. Where useful, it includes rolling averages and trend lines.
Because coronavirus data viewed alone or displayed without context does not provide a clear or accurate view of pandemic activity in the community, viewers should first review the Key Metrics Descriptions page, which explains each data point included on the dashboard and why it matters.
The information reflects activity in St. Luke’s hospitals only. It does not reflect what’s going on in other hospitals or the state of Idaho as a whole.