DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – The Iowa Department of Public Health reported three more COVID-19 deaths and 631 more positive cases in Iowa on Wednesday.
As of 10:30 a.m., the state reports that a total of 337,594 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and that a total of 5,501 people have died from the virus since the start of the pandemic.
In the state data, COVID-19 is listed as the underlying cause of 4,933 of the reported deaths, while virus was a contributing factor in 568 of the reported deaths.
The state also reported that a total of 191 people with the virus have been hospitalized in Iowa, of which 28 have been hospitalized in the past 24 hours. There are currently 40 COVID-19 patients in the ICU and 11 on ventilators.
In the past 24 hours, the state reported that 3,560 individuals were tested for COVID-19. A total of 1,565,415 individuals have been tested since the start of the pandemic. According to this data, the positivity rate in the past 24 hours was 17.7 percent.
As of 10:30 a.m., the state dashboard on the vaccination administration dashboard shows that a total of 723,262 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Iowa, and 186,759 people in Iowa have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Check out the latest information on COVID-19 vaccination in Iowa here.
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