Douglas County Health Director Lindsay Huse says COVID-19 cases are declining in the Omaha area – KETV Omaha

THIS IS OMAHA’S NE LWSR,EADE KETV NEWSWATCH 7 AT NOON. QUANECIA: DOUGLAS COUNTY’S HEALTH DIRECTOR SHARES ENCOURAGING NEWS WITH COMMISSIONERS. GOOD AFTERNOON. I’M QUANECIA FRASER. DOCTOR LINDSAY HUSE SAYS WLEHI WE’RE STILL SEEING HIGH TRANSMISSION OF COVID-19, CASES ARE GOING DOWN — AND THEY’RE DECLINING PRETTY STEEP.LY >> I HOPE THAT THAT TREND CONTINUES. I’M GOING TO KEEP MY FINGERS CROSSED. I’M GOING TO KEEP ENCOURAGING OUR COMMUNITY TO KEEP DOING THE RIGHT THINGS TO HELP THAT CONTINUE. I DO KNOW THAT IN SO OTHERME PARTS OF THE U.S., THAT DOWNWARD TRAJECTORY HAS STALLED OUT A BIT, SO I HOPE THAT WE ARE THE EXCEPTION AND THAT WE EPKE MOVING DN.OW QUANECIA: DOCTOR HUSE SAYS HOSPITALIZATIONS APPEAR TO HAVE STABILIZED AS WELL, BUT MANY HOSPITALS ARE STILL STRUGGLING WITH HIGH CAPACITY. JUST WITHIN ETH LAST HOUR, DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH REPORTED 433 PEOPLE ARE IN THE HOSPITAL THWI COVID-19, 22 ARE PEDIATRIC PATIEN

Douglas County Health Director Lindsay Huse says COVID-19 cases are declining in the Omaha area

Douglas County Health Director Lindsay Huse shared encouraging news with the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday morning.Huse said while we’re still seeing high transmission of COVID-19, cases are going down — and they’re declining pretty steeply. “I hope that that trend continues,” Huse said. “I’m going to keep my fingers crossed. I’m going to keep encouraging our community to keep doing the right things to help that continues. I do know that in some other parts of the U.S. that downward trajectory has stalled out a bit, so I hope that we are the exception and that we keep moving down.”Huse said hospitalizations appear to have stabilized as well, but many hospitals are still struggling with high capacity.There were 433 people hospitalized in the Omaha metro as of Tuesday’s report from Douglas County. Medical and surgical beds were 87% full with 191 staffed beds available. Twenty-two children were among those hospitalized.As of Tuesday, 84 adults were receiving ICU-level care with 47 on ventilators.

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Douglas County Health Director Lindsay Huse shared encouraging news with the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday morning.

Huse said while we’re still seeing high transmission of COVID-19, cases are going down — and they’re declining pretty steeply.

“I hope that that trend continues,” Huse said. “I’m going to keep my fingers crossed. I’m going to keep encouraging our community to keep doing the right things to help that continues. I do know that in some other parts of the U.S. that downward trajectory has stalled out a bit, so I hope that we are the exception and that we keep moving down.”

Huse said hospitalizations appear to have stabilized as well, but many hospitals are still struggling with high capacity.

There were 433 people hospitalized in the Omaha metro as of Tuesday’s report from Douglas County. Medical and surgical beds were 87% full with 191 staffed beds available. Twenty-two children were among those hospitalized.

As of Tuesday, 84 adults were receiving ICU-level care with 47 on ventilators.