OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — On Wednesday, The Douglas County Health Department reported 107 new positive COVID-19 tests were received since midnight the previous day.
The health department received three confirmed COVID-19-related death certificates during the past day. Three women have died, including two in their 70s who were unvaccinated and a woman over 80 who was vaccinated. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Douglas County during the pandemic is now 1,060.
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 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 update received by DCHD late Tuesday:
- There were 260 individuals hospitalized due to COVID-19, including 249 adults and eleven pediatric cases.
- Thirty-two of the adults were receiving ICU-level care.
- Medical and surgical beds were at 90% occupancy with 147 staffed beds available.
- Adult ICU beds were occupied at an 83% rate with 51 staffed beds available.
- Pediatric ICU beds were at 89% capacity with 15 beds available.
- There were two additional adult COVID-19 persons of interest (generally waiting for test results).
- Thirteen individuals who were confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The number of positive cases since March of 2020 now totals 141,560.
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