DHHS Dashboard Will Experience Significant Increase in Test Results

LINCOLN – The COVID-19 data dashboard will experience a significant increase in test results over the next several days.

The increase is related to results from the Nebraska Medicine Clinical Lab and Nebraska Public Health Lab (NPHL) flowing into the dashboard after a recent security incident affected some of the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and Nebraska Medicine health system platforms.

During the outage, UNMC, NPHL, and DHHS developed an alternative process to ensure local health departments continued to receive positive results to conduct contact tracing until systems were back online.

Nebraska DHHS COVID-19 Dashboard Statistics

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Dashboard as of Thursday, October 1, at 2:30 pm, shows a total of 45,564 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Nebraska.

On Wednesday, September 30, 520 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Nebraska; the highest number of positive COVID-19 cases in one day since 677 cases were reported on May 7, 2020. There have been 478 COVID-19 deaths in Nebraska.

After decreasing significantly in the first two weeks in July, the number of hospitalizations has been steadily increasing since July’s end and does not look to be slowing down as the state currently has 226 patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

The highest number of hospitalized patients due to COVID-19 in Nebraska was reported on May 27 with 232 hospitalizations and last Thursday the state got close to that number again with 231 hospitalizations reported.

To view the Nebraska DHHS Covid-19 Dashboard click here