DCH Coronavirus Update 1-4-21

More Vaccine Testimonials

Currently we are still in phase 1a of the Alabama Department of Public Health COVID-19 vaccination plan, which includes frontline health workers (inpatient and outpatient) and some first responders. Following is another brief video from DCH employees who agreed to share their thoughts on why they chose to receive the vaccine.

https://youtu.be/6SiPfk34jAI

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 Health System internal counts as of 5:00 p.m. on 1/4/21:

• 179 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• 39 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• 15 who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• 22 who are positive for COVID-19 are on a BiPAP.
• We are conducting some maintenance to the feed for unique positive and negative tests for COVID-19 so that chart and those numbers are not included today.
• 7,006 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 33,050 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 8,447 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 57,203 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 2,114 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 372 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.
• 155 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).