DCH Coronavirus Update 12-8-20
- Category: Coronavirus
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Bryant Bank Shares a Thank You
The team at Bryant Bank put together a video for everyone who is working so hard at DCH. Below is a link to the video. Thank you Bryant Bank!
Testing and Confirmed Cases
To protect patient privacy, DCH has established a minimum threshold of five for reporting numbers of inpatients with laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19.
DCH internal counts as of 4:02 p.m. on 12/8/20:
- 134 inpatients are positive for COVID-19.
- 32 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
- 14 who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
- 8 who are positive for COVID-19 are on a BiPAP.
- 5,210 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
- 30,231 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
- 6,392 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
- 49,989 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
- 1,556 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
- 284 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died at DCH. This is not an indication of the cause of death, only that the individuals were positive for COVID-19 at the time of death.
- 137 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).
