DCH Coronavirus Update 3-9-21

TCSS Thanks

Yesterday the Tuscaloosa County School System invited a DCH representative to its board meeting to offer a thank you for DCH’s efforts to vaccinate educators. The thank you included six posters with photos and handwritten notes from teachers.

DCH is honored to have been able to provide this service to educators. We are not only grateful for the kind gesture but also for all the teachers who have worked through tremendous obstacles and personal risk to keep moving forward with their vital work. We appreciate you!

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 3:12 p.m. on 3/9/21:

• 27 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.
• 8,493 (cumulative) unique positives for COVID-19 tests including results from the ED, triage tent and inpatient. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 38,400 (cumulative) unique negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 10,270 (cumulative) positive COVID-19 at DCH sites. These individuals are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 71,105 (cumulative) negative tests at DCH sites.
• 2,936 inpatients (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have been discharged.
• 538 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.
• 288 Tuscaloosa County residents (cumulative) who were positive for COVID-19 have died (per the Alabama Department of Public Health).