The Douglas County Health Department on Thursday confirmed that 218 new cases of COVID-19 were reported to the Department since our last report on Tuesday. There are a total of 178,046 cases of COVID-19 reported in the county since March of 2020.
The case numbers reported do not include at-home tests. The county health department still encourages Douglas County residents to report their at-home test results because health officials do review them.
DCHD received confirmation of two additional COVID-19-related deaths since Tuesday. A man and a woman both over the age of 75 have died. Both had been vaccinated, but their current vaccination status is unknown. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Douglas County during the pandemic now is 1,248.
The health department told 3 News Now that it considers being vaccinated for COVID-19 as having the first two shots and that individuals who are listed as vaccinated may or may not have had boosters.
The Omaha Metropolitan Healthcare Coalition — which encompasses Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders, Dodge, and Washington counties in Nebraska, plus hospitals in Council Bluffs and Missouri Valley, Iowa — releases updated COVID-19 case counts and a hospital occupancy report to the Douglas County Health Department on Mondays and Thursdays. The overall numbers include both COVID-19 patients and hospitalized patients for all other illnesses and injuries unless otherwise noted.
According to the most recent local hospital coalition update received by DCHD on Wednesday:
- There were 135 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19, including nine pediatric cases.
- Fourteen patients were receiving ICU-level care.
- Three suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients were on a ventilator.
- There were seven COVID-19 persons of interest, generally awaiting test results, and one of them was a pediatric case.
- Medical and surgical beds were occupied at an 82% rate with 304 staffed beds available.
- Adult ICU beds were occupied at a 75% rate with 75 staffed beds available.
- Pediatric ICU beds were at 80% of capacity with nine beds available.
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