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11 More Deaths, 26 COVID-19 Patients In Critical Condition

April 20, 2020
by Tom Sofield

A health care provider adjusts a COVID-19 patient’s pulse oximeter this week.

On Monday, 11 more Bucks Countians with COVID-19 died, raising the total to 99.

The deaths  – women ages 72, 89, 90, 93 and 93 and men ages 65, 66, 66, 90, 90, and 94 – were all of residents of long-term care facilities, county officials said.

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The vast majority of COVID-19 deaths in the county have been among older residents.

On Monday, the county saw 92 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to 1,977.

There were 162 residents with COVID-19 in the hospitals and 26 in critical condition on ventilators as of Monday night.