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Iowa COVID-19 update (10-a.m. 5/26/20)

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May 26th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The State of Iowa’s online COVID-19 dashboard (https://coronavirus.iowa.gov/) shows 464 deaths have been attributed to the virus since record keeping began two months ago. Completed assessments amount to 533,567. The figures show 134,984 were tested for the virus, 17,661 have tested positive, 117,020 tested negative, and 9,410 have recovered.

For Cass and surrounding Counties, the number of positive test results and (the number of recovered), have not changed much over the past three days. Cass County 11 positive cases (1 recovered); Adair County: 8 (3); Adams County: 5 (1); Audubon County: 12 (9); Guthrie County: 43 (29); Montgomery County: 6 (5); Shelby County: 31 (24) and Pottawattamie County: 215 (122).

In RMCC Region 4 (Southwest/western Iowa), seven people are hospitalized for COVID-19, three are in an ICU, and no one was admitted to a hospital. Those figures have also held steady for the past few days.  Across the State, 377 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized, 118 are in an ICU, and 33 were admitted over the past 24-hours. There was also another Long-Term Care facility outbreak across the State, bringing the total back up to 37 from the previous figure of 36. The number of deaths at those facilities stands at 245. Patients and staff who’ve tested positive number 1,586. The number recovered is 669.