The UVA Medical Center is seeing about three times as many COVID-19 patients in the hospital as it was a month ago. During a virtual press conference Friday, Dr. Reid Adams, UVA Health’s chief medical officer, said 31 patients currently are hospitalized due to COVID, and almost half of those are in the intensive care unit. “We get transfers of patients that can’t be taken care of elsewhere that need really advanced therapies to support them through their COVID illness, so that’s why our ICU population continues to remain pretty steady,” he said.