DCH Coronavirus Update 1-6-21

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 3:56 p.m. on 1/6/21:

• 174 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• 38 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• 14 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.
• 7,176 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 33,285 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 8,643 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 57,944 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 2,165 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 382 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.
• 157 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).