DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – The number of people who died due to the new coronavirus in Iowa has shown a major change since Saturday morning in the latest reports by state officials.
As of 10:30 am on Sunday, the Iowa Department of Public Health said that an additional 250 people who died of COVID-19 were added to the state total, which now stands at 4,901 since the pandemic began. This is the largest number of deaths added in a 24-hour period, surpassing the 202 added to the total on the morning of December 8, 2020.
The state continuously updates the number of people who died from the virus, adding counts to the previous days when new data is reported to IDPH. This can occasionally lead to big changes in the data, sometimes with a long delay of days or weeks. It was not immediately clear why the sudden jump occurred during the past 24 hours, although none of the reported deaths has been attributed to the past three calendar days.
An additional 645 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were reported in the past 24 hours, putting the state total at 319,203 people since March 2020. 282,477 people are considered recovered from the disease.
A total of 358 people are hospitalized in Iowa due to COVID-19, showing a net reduction of 18 since the Saturday morning report. 94 of these people are in intensive care units, a net increase of 10. 29 of these patients require the use of a ventilator, a net reduction of two. 55 people were recently admitted to Iowa hospitals due to illness in the past 24 hours, similar to the 48 new patients from the previous reporting period.
Another 2,425 people had test results reported by public and private laboratories in the past 24 hours. The positivity rate for this batch of tests was 26.6%, higher than the 17.7% the previous day. The positivity rate calculated using this method may differ from the number on the state coronavirus panel, due to the fact that it uses the number of people tested, not the total number of tests, including people who have been tested repeatedly.
A total of 1,472,768 people in Iowa have been tested since the pandemic began.
A total of 248,832 doses of a vaccine for COVID-19 have been administered in Iowa so far. 132,466 people received only the first dose, while 58,183 received the two necessary doses of Moderna or Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.
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