OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — The Douglas County Health Department (DCHD) on Thursday reported 376 new positive COVID-19 tests were received since Monday’s report. The number of positive cases since March of 2020 now totals 166,695.
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.
Four new COVID-19-related death certificates were received by DCHD since Monday’s report. Two of the deaths were not recent but now are confirmed to be linked to COVID-19. Three men ranging from their late 60s to 90 died and two of them were vaccinated. A woman in her 70s who was vaccinated died. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Douglas County during the pandemic has increased to 1,166.
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 update received by DCHD Wednesday:
- There were 136 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 including eight pediatric cases.
- Thirteen adults were receiving ICU-level care.
- There was one additional adult COVID-19 person of interest, waiting for test results.
- Three people who were confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19 were on a ventilator.
- Medical and surgical beds were occupied at an 87% occupancy rate with 182 staffed beds available.
- Adult ICU beds were occupied at an 86% rate with 34 staffed beds available.
- Pediatric ICU beds were at 88% of capacity with 19 beds available.
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