Coronavirus Update and Health System Preparations - 4/16
- Category: Coronavirus
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Testing and Confirmed Cases
To protect patient privacy, we have established a minimum threshold of five for reporting numbers of inpatients with laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19.
DCH internal counts as of 11:20 a.m. on 4/16/20:
19 inpatients are being treated for COVID-19.
Five or fewer inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
Five or fewer inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
140 (cumulative) have tested positive for COVID-19 including individuals from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
2,867 (cumulative) have tested negative at DCH sites.
