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The Iowa Department of Public Health today announced new COVID-19 Data for the past week. IDPH reported 8,907 additional positive COVID-19 tests, for a total of 441,889 positive tests since the start of the pandemic.
The health department reported 39 additional COVID-19 deaths, totaling 6,307 since the pandemic began.
The state’s 14-day positivity rate is up from 8.2% to 8.6% in the last 7 days, and the 7-day rate is up from 8.3% to 8.6%.
There are COVID-19 outbreaks in 16 of Iowa’s long-term care facilities. That is twice as many outbreaks as last week’s total of 8.
Woodbury County is seeing increasing cases of COVID-19. Siouxland District Health says 14-day rolling average for the county is 10.2 percent. Ten people are hospitalized due to COVID-19, and 42.7 percent of residents are now fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
South Dakota's largest hospitals are bracing to receive a growing flow of COVID-19 patients over the next month, doctors for Avera Health and Sanford Health said today.
Top doctors for the health systems, alongside the Sioux Falls Public Health Director held their first public briefing in months as the state sees a wave of coronavirus cases spurred by the contagious delta virus strain. The state Department of Health has not held public briefings dedicated to the virus since June. Over the past two weeks, the rolling average number of daily new cases has increased by 65% and one out of every 310 people in the state has tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.
