DCH Coronavirus Update 1-7-21

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 4:09 p.m. on 1/7/20:

• 166 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• 42 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
• 17 who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• 24 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.
• 7,247 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 33,385 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 8,722 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 58,242 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 2,197 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 384 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).