OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — The Douglas County Health Department on Thursday reported 226 new positive COVID-19 tests were received since Monday’s report when 200 cases were reported. There have now been 169,314 positive cases 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 two new confirmed COVID-19-related deaths since Monday. A vaccinated man and an unvaccinated man, both over 75, have died. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Douglas County during the pandemic now is 1,185.
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 update received by DCHD Wednesday:
- There were 130 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 including three pediatric patients.
- Twenty adults were receiving ICU-level care.
- There were two additional COVID-19 persons of interest and all of them were adults.
- Eight people who were confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19 were on a ventilator.
- Medical and surgical beds were occupied at an 88% rate with 164 staffed beds available.
- Adult ICU beds were occupied at a 91% rate with 26 staffed beds available.
- Pediatric ICU beds were at 79% of capacity with 29 beds available.
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