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DCH Coronavirus Update 12-8-20

DCH Coronavirus Update 12-8-20

Bryant Bank Shares a Thank You

The team at Bryant Bank put together a video for everyone who is working so hard at DCH. Below is a link to the video. Thank you Bryant Bank!

https://youtu.be/JuF5MkI0sf0

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 internal counts as of 4:02 p.m. on 12/8/20:

  • 134 inpatients are positive for COVID-19.
  • 32 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
  • 14 who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
  • 8 who are positive for COVID-19 are on a BiPAP.
  • 5,210 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
  • 30,231 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
  • 6,392 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
  • 49,989 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
  • 1,556 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
  • 284 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.
  • 137 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).