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Iowa reports 11 deaths, 521 new COVID-19 cases Friday Share Shares Copy Link Copy

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good morning. We'll go ahead and start out with a report out again a little bit different format that we've been using. But we have today 521 new positive cases for a total of 4445 positive cases. We had 2190 new negative cases for a total of 29,783. So yesterday we ran a total of 2712 tests, which is significantly higher than what we've been running through the testing process. We also have tested a total of 31,973 Iowans and on a per capita basis, that means one and 98 Iowans have been tested. So we really have significantly up to our ability to test Iowans, which I believe is positive. Ah, the increase in positive cases today is related to testing that's occurring among essential workers. Again, 30% of Iowa's positive cases are related to manufacturing and 15% is related to health care workers. 1604 Iowans were dike that were diagnosed with covert. 19 have recovered for a recovery rate of 36% today. I am really sad to report that we have had 11 additional deaths in the state of Iowa for a total of 107 Iowans who have sadly lost their lives to this horrible virus. Today's death many of them are again among residents of long term care facilities and, of course, individuals with preexisting health conditions across all of our our MCC regions. Yesterday there were 278 covert, 19 patients hospitalized. 44 were admitted in the last 24 hours. Ah, 104 patients are being treated in icy use and 60 patients are on ventilators. So also in hospitals across the state, there are 3896 inpatient beds, 534 I see you beds and 682 ventilators that are available for patient care. The Department of Public Health has also confirmed that we have had one additional long term care ah facility outbreak and that is in Mitchell Village Care Center in Polk County. For a total of 13 long term care facility outbreaks over the last two days, the Department of Public Health has deployed our long term care strike team to conduct surveillance surveillance testing at of long term care staff members in Tama County. And this proactive Strat strategy is intended to learn more about increased virus activity in the area, identify and isolate long term care workers who may test positive and prevent, of course, of prevent induced introducing the virus into their facilities. In total. Over the last two days, they were able to test 315 long term care staff. They did both. Diagnostic and serology testing were offered today. I also want to make so they were able to do both. It wasn't a mandate, but they did thesis wop testing. And then if they wanted to, they were also able to take do the serology tests as well, which is a test that detects whether you've had the virus recovered and you have antibodies within your system.