DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – The number of people hospitalized in Iowa with COVID-19 increased on Saturday morning, according to new state data.
As of 10:30 a.m., the Iowa Department of Public Health said 556 people who tested positive for the virus were added to the state’s total, which is now 342,463 since the start of the pandemic. The state no longer keeps track of the number of people considered to have recovered from the disease.
Three people who died as a result of COVID-19 were reported to state officials on Friday morning since the same time. 5,633 people have died in Iowa as a result of the new coronavirus.
182 people are in Iowa hospitals with COVID-19, a net increase of 14. This is the largest one-day increase so far in March. 41 of those people are in intensive care, a net increase of five. 17 of those people require the use of a ventilator, a net increase of four. Forty patients were only admitted for disease in the past 24-hour reporting period, a rate similar to the day before, but higher than the days before.
A total of 1,031,062 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far in Iowa, an increase of 33,008 from the same time on Friday. 366,371 people have completed their vaccination course, either through the two injection vaccines or the one-time Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Initial tests of 3,479 individuals were reported to the state in the past 24 hours. The positivity percentage for these batch of tests was 16.0%. A total of 1,594,768 people have been tested for the virus since the start of the pandemic.
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