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DCH Coronavirus Update 1-6-21

DCH Coronavirus Update 1-6-21

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 3:56 p.m. on 1/6/21:

  • 174 inpatients within the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
  • 38 inpatients who are positive for COVID-19 are being treated in the ICU.
  • 14 who are positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
  • 22 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.
  • 7,176 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
  • 33,285 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
  • 8,643 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
  • 57,944 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
  • 2,165 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
  • 382 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).