Final COVID and Flu Hospitalization Report
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Update May 10, 2023
Final COVID and Flu Hospitalization Report
On February 9, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra, released a letter to Governors announcing the planned end to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency on May 11, 2023. In addition, the last time the DCH Health System released consecutive weekly updates with 10 or more COVID-19 positive inpatients in its facilities was February. Because of these factors, today DCH is discontinuing its weekly COVID-19 and flu hospitalization update.
Flu, COVID and Health System Masking Update
* To protect patient privacy, DCH has established a minimum threshold of five for reporting numbers of inpatients with laboratory-confirmed cases of the flu or COVID-19.
