As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have increased, so have deaths.
Bryan Health said Monday that six patients died over the weekend. The health system did not offer any further information on ages, genders or where they were from, but the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department confirmed two deaths Monday — men in their 40s and 60s who were hospitalized and unvaccinated.
Bryan has now seen 20 COVID-19 patients die in just the past two weeks. More than half of those patients have been from other counties, even though Lancaster County residents have made up more than two-thirds of the recent COVID-19 hospitalizations at Bryan.
The health system has seen the number of COVID-19 patients balloon over the past couple of months as case numbers have soared.
Bryan resumed reporting COVID-19 patient numbers to the public and media July 15, when it had 20 patients. That number hit 66 on Thursday before dropping to 51 Monday.
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Including CHI St. Elizabeth, the Health Department reported 85 people hospitalized in Lincoln with COVID-19, including eight on ventilators.
Lancaster County has recorded 15 COVID-19 deaths this month, more than in May, June and July combined.Â
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, in its weekly COVID-19 update released Wednesday, reported 17 deaths statewide in the prior seven days.