At 10 a. m. on Sunday, Iowa reported 42 more cases of COVID-19 and thirteen more COVID-19-related deaths since the state counted at 10 a. m. Saturday, according to Coronavirus. Iowa. gov.
Authorities report that a total of 1,8four2 more people with COVID-19 died from the disease state-round, adding 33 in Johnson County. A death was reported wednesday here the third in a week; the first reported on April 4.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A total of 1030973 Iowans were evaluated for the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which is to blame for the disease, adding 49,794 in Johnson County, a total of 152,604 tested positive in Iowa. -19 in Johnson County, an increase of 121 from 10 a. m. on Saturday.
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At 10 a. m. on Sunday, the state reported that a record 196 other people with the virus were hospitalized on the state’s fifth MRI, which includes Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Muscatine, Scott. Van, Wapello and Washington counties, and 53 were being served in extensive care units in the domain. The last region peaked with 192 hospitalized patients, adding 56 in its ICU on Saturday.
Authorities also reported that 992 patients with COVID-19 were hospitalized in the state on Sunday morning, adding 190 in extensive care units; Last records were 949 and 199, reported on Saturday. Depending on the state, hospitals have more than 2,700 beds and 370 beds of extensive care for coronavirus patients, adding 372 general hospital beds and 61 extensive care beds in the southeastern part of the area. State.
On August 27, Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered the closure of bars, breweries and nightclubs in Johnson and five other counties, and Johnson County’s 14-day positivity rate peaked at nearly 25% in the first week of September. the rate fell to just 4. 8% in the first week of October and, after Reynolds legalized the reopening of bars on October 5, the county’s 14-day rate slowly increased and by 13. 5% on Sunday morning, the fifth consecutive day. rate on average more than 10%.
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According to the Iowa City Community School District’s “decision matrix,” which the district’s school board approved in early September, the district plans to apply for a state waiver to organize online courses if the county’s average 14-day positivity rate reaches 10 percent. . for an era of 3 to five days, the district absence rate for academics or teachers reaches 10% for two consecutive days, or both.
“The procedure is to look at the numbers over an era of 3 to five days to see if it is above or below one of the transition points. So nothing will happen without delay from one day above the 10% number,” the board said. President Shawn Eyestone told Press-Citizen Wednesday, the first day the county reported an average 14-day positivity rate of more than 10% since mid-September. “But in reality, the number will only continue to increase over the next few days. . “
Eyestone said the district’s administrative team may ask the state for an exemption to move courses in the online user inadvertently following the council’s approval as the board passed the parameters and procedure at its meeting in early September, but, he added, if the waiver were to be denied. council would possibly want to take action at its next meeting , scheduled for Tuesday night.
Gov. Kim Reynolds’s administration has at times argued that schools conduct part of their courses on users, unless the county’s COVID-19 positivity rate reaches 15% during a two-week era and absenteeism reaches 15%. 10%.
Eighty-one of Iowa counties reported average positivity rates of 14 days or more than 15% or more on Sunday morning. Only one county, Ringgold, in south-central Iowa reported an average 14-day positivity rate of less than 10%.
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On Friday afternoon, University of Iowa officials said 50 cases of COVID-19 had been self-reported through academics since Wednesday, surpassing 2,273 cases since August 18. away this semester.
The university also reported that a student living in their university apartments lately is asked to quarantine, and 8 who are self-insulated.
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Four other people imprisoned at Iowa Medical and Classification Center and 4 members tested positive for the disease at 10 a. m. Sunday. Another 327 inmates and forty-five workers tested positive and have since recovered.
An increase in cases at the Coralville facility was first reported on August 18. One of the inmates at the facility, Richard Leroy Peters, 77, died on September 6. Peter, the fourth user under the supervision of the Iowa Department of Corrections, died of complications. . COVID-19, but only the first at the Coralville facility.
The state continues to report an outbreak at The Colonial Mansion in Amana, where 62 cases have been shown and 41 have recovered. Officials continued to report outbreaks in 92 of Iowa’s 440 long-term care services (20. 9%) Sunday morning. Iowa residents of COVID-19, 890 (48. 3%) were citizens of long-term care services.
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Figures reported across the state for Johnson County and throughout Iowa, respectively, at 10 a. m. Sunday Numbers in parentheses are the replacement in the last 24 hours.
CMRC Region Five includes Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Muscatine, Scott, Van Buren, Wapello, and Washington counties.
Source: Iowa Department of Public Health
Zach Thompson is the editor-in-chief of Press-Citizen and can be contacted at zthompson@press-citizen. com. Follow him on Twitter at @zthomp.