DCH Coronavirus Update 10-30-20

Safe Halloween

The Alabama Department of Public Health has shared recommendations to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 during Halloween activities. Included here is an infographic as well as a link outlining additional details. Make good decisions and be safe!

https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/covid19/prevention.html

Primp Your Pumpkin

Creativity abounds in multiple ways. Each October, it shows up in the form of pumpkins at DCH.

Once again, in the Primp Your Pumpkin contest, DCH departments have shown us how that big orange squash can be transformed into farm animals, the Cookie Monster and scenes inspired by COVID-19. Click here to see some of this year's entries.

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 3:25 p.m. on 10/30/20:

• 65 inpatients are being treated for COVID-19.
• 15 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• Five or fewer who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• Five or fewer who are positive for COVID-19 are on a BiPAP.
• 3,774 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 25,627 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 4,813 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 39,991 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 1,190 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 227 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.
• 116 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).