OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — The Douglas County Health Department on Monday confirmed that 153 new cases of COVID-19 were received by the Department since its last report on Monday. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the county since March of 2020 now is 183,021.
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 has received confirmation of five additional COVID-19-related deaths since Monday. Four women and a man, all 75 years of age or older have died. One of them had not been vaccinated. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Douglas County during the pandemic increases to 1,322.
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:
- 94 individuals were hospitalized who had COVID-19
- None of them were pediatric patients
- 7 patients were receiving ICU-level care
- 2 people hospitalized with COVID-19 were on a ventilator.
- There were four suspected COVID-19 patients waiting for test results.
- Medical and surgical beds were occupied at an 88% rate with 219 staffed beds available.
- Adult ICU beds were occupied at a 91% rate with 26 staffed beds available.
- Pediatric ICU beds were at 87% of capacity with six beds available.
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