COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to show slow improvement

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – Measurements related to the new coronavirus showed consistent trends on Sunday morning as in the past few days, state data showed.

As of 10:30 a.m., the Iowa Department of Public Health said 1,330 people who tested positive for COVID-19 had been added to the state total, which now stands at 296,441. 255,955 people are considered to have recovered from the disease, an increase of 853.

Eleven more people who died from COVID-19 have been added to the state’s total, which is now 4,138 since the start of the pandemic.

541 patients are in Iowa hospitals due to COVID-19, a net decrease of eight. 105 of these patients are in intensive care units, a net decrease of five. 41 require the use of a fan, a net decrease of six. 72 people were newly admitted to hospitals in Iowa during the 24-hour benchmark, roughly the same as Saturday morning’s report.

Another 3,946 people had test results reported by public and private laboratories in the past 24 hours. The positivity rate for this batch of tests was 33.7%, slightly lower than the 35.6% the day before. The positivity rate calculated using this method may differ from the number on the state’s coronavirus dashboard, due to the fact that it uses the number of people tested, and not the total number of tests, including people who have been tested multiple times.

A total of 1,394,799 people in Iowa have been tested since the start of the pandemic.

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