OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — On Saturday, the Douglas County Health Department (DCHD) confirmed in its daily COVID report that 1,420 new positive COVID-19 cases were reported since midnight the previous day.
The Health Department said it will not be reporting any new COVID-19 related death certificates until Monday. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Douglas County during the pandemic is now 975.
The Omaha Metropolitan Health Care 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 a near-daily basis. 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 report for the metro area, received Friday afternoon:
- Medical and surgical beds are at 87% occupancy with 186 staffed beds available.
- Adult ICU beds are occupied at a 86% rate with 41 staffed beds available.
- There are 436 individuals hospitalized who have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
- 90 are receiving adult ICU-level care.
- Forty individuals who are confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19 are on ventilators.
- Eighteen pediatric patients are confirmed among those hospitalized.
- Pediatric ICU beds are at 81% capacity with 25 beds available.
- There are 23 additional COVID-19 persons of interest (generally waiting for test results) to report, with 17 potential adult cases and six potential pediatric cases.
The total number of positive cases reported since March of 2020 is 131,283.
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