DCH Health System Daily COVID Update

Update of January 3, 2022

COVID Update

To protect patient privacy, DCH has established a minimum threshold of five for reporting the number of hospitalized patients with laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Internal accounts of the DCH health system at 2:27 p.m. on 1/3/22:

• 47 patients hospitalized in the DCH system who are positive for COVID-19.
• 9 hospitalized patients positive for COVID-19 are treated in intensive care.
• 7 hospitalized patients positive for COVID-19 are on ventilators.
• Five or fewer hospital patients who test positive for COVID-19 are on BiPAP.
• 12,666 unique (cumulative) positives for COVID-19 tests, including emergency room, triage tent and inpatient results. These people are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 56,113 unique (cumulative) negatives for COVID-19 at DCH sites.
• 15,229 (cumulative) positive for COVID-19 at DCH sites. These people are not necessarily in the hospital.
• 120,593 negative tests (cumulative) on the DCH sites.
• 4,343 inpatients (cumulative) who tested positive for COVID-19 were discharged from the hospital.
• 780 hospitalized patients (cumulative) who tested positive for COVID-19 died from DCH. This is not an indication of the cause of death, only that individuals were positive for COVID-19 at the time of death.