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3RPHD Reports New COVID-19 Cases, Another Death in Dodge County

FREMONT – Three Rivers Public Health Department (3RPHD) reported 23 new l lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases within the district  from test results received on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. These new cases bring the totals by county to:

  • Dodge County: 590 cases
  • Saunders County:  55 cases
  • Washington County:  36 cases

Total 3RPHD Case Count:  681 cases
 As of Wednesday morning, local hospitals reported 331 medical beds were available – this is 100 fewer beds than Monday’s count. 137 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19, five new hospitalizations over the last two days. Of the 367 ventilators available to area hospitals, 129 were in use, including 39 for confirmed COVID-19 patients.
3RPHD also reported Dodge county’s third COVID-19 related death: that of a woman in her 50s. Deaths are attributed to COVID-19 when a person has an active COVID-19 infection and dies as a direct cause of the bodily symptoms that infection causes.
 

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