DCH Coronavirus Update 3-15-21

Vaccination for Additional Groups

On Friday Governor Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Public Health announced that starting Monday, March 22, COVID-19 vaccine eligibility will be expanded. Groups that will be included in the extension include “people age 55 and older, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the population defined as Allocation Phase 1C…”

Earlier today, updates were completed to DCH registration form to allow these groups to register for any available time on March 22 or after. As soon as the update went live all remaining appointment times filled up almost immediately.

We are working to add more times so please check back regularly at the link below. https://www.dchsystem.com/covidvaccine/

COVID-19 Information

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 3:13 p.m. on 3/15/21:

• 19 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• Five or fewer 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.
• 8,532 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 38,832 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 10,321 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 72,130 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 2,972 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 539 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.
• 295 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).