OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — The Douglas County Health Department on Monday confirmed that 190 new cases of COVID-19 were received by the Department since our last report on Thursday. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the county since March of 2020 now is 182,583.
The case numbers reported do not include at-home tests. The county health department still encourages Douglas County residents to report their at-home test results because health officials do review them.
DCHD has received confirmation of two additional COVID-19-related deaths since Thursday. A man and a woman both over 85 have died. Both had been vaccinated, but their current vaccine status was not known. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Douglas County during the pandemic increases to 1,311.
The health department told 3 News Now that it considers being vaccinated for COVID-19 as having the first two shots and that individuals who are listed as vaccinated may or may not have had boosters.
The Omaha Metropolitan Healthcare Coalition — which encompasses Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders, Dodge, and Washington counties in Nebraska, plus hospitals in Council Bluffs and Missouri Valley, Iowa — releases updated COVID-19 case counts and a hospital occupancy report to the Douglas County Health Department on Mondays and Thursdays. The overall numbers include both COVID-19 patients and hospitalized patients for all other illnesses and injuries unless otherwise noted.
According to the most recent local hospital coalition update received by DCHD on Sunday:
- 124 individuals were hospitalized who had COVID-19
- 6 of them were pediatric patients
- 16 patients were receiving ICU-level care
- 8 people hospitalized with COVID-19 were on a ventilator.
- There were two suspected COVID-19 patients waiting for test results.
- Medical and surgical beds were occupied at an 83% rate with 298 staffed beds available.
- Adult ICU beds were occupied at a 92% rate with 21 staffed beds available.
- Pediatric ICU beds were at 73% of capacity with 15 beds available.
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