OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — The Douglas County Health Department on Monday reported 276 new positive COVID-19 tests had been received since our last report on Thursday when 265 cases were reported. There have been 172,561 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.
Since Thursday, DCHD received confirmation of two more COVID-19-related deaths. A man in his 60s and a man in his 80s have died. Only one of them had been vaccinated. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Douglas County during the pandemic now is 1,221.
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 Sunday:
- There were 90 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 and all were adult cases.
- 10 patients were receiving ICU-level care.
- Three 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 213 staffed beds available.
- There were four COVID-19 persons of interest, waiting for test results, and all were potential pediatric cases.
- Adult ICU beds were occupied at a 80% rate with 30 staffed beds available.
- Pediatric ICU beds were at 82% of capacity with 11 beds available.
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