The Iowa Department of Public Health’s Coronavirus dashboard, today (10-a.m., Wednesday), shows 601 additional positive test results for COVID returned from the labs, for a total of 371,793. Pottawattamie County topped 11,000 positive cases during the pandemic, for a total to-date of 11,010. There were 15 additional deaths over the past 24-hours statewide, for a pandemic total of 5,657. Long-Term Care facility deaths account for 2,222 of the total number of deaths across the state.

Long-Term Care (LTC) facility outbreaks remain at one. Hospitalization data indicate: 161 Iowans are hospitalized with COVID; 41 are in an ICU; 37 people were admitted to a hospital across the state, and 18 patients remain on a ventilator.

RMCC Region 4 hospitals (those in western/southwest Iowa) show those hospitalized with COVID are at 13, eight people are in an ICU, there was one admission, and four people remain are on a ventilator.

The 14-day and seven-day positivity rates are both down slightly, to 3.9% each.

In the KJAN listening area, here are the current number positive cases by County; The # of new cases since yesterday {+} – if any; and the total number of deaths in each county to date:

• Cass, 1,385 cases; {+3}; 52 deaths
• Adair, 946; {+6}; 31
• Adams, 326 {+0}; 4
• Audubon, 494 {+0}; 9
• Guthrie, 1,186 {+0}; 28
• Harrison County, 1,814; {+4}; 70
• Madison County, 1,613; {+5}; 18
• Mills County, 1,665; {+4}; 20
• Montgomery, 1,045 {+0}; 36
• Pottawattamie County, 11,010; {+19}; 149
• Shelby County, 1,264 {+6}; 34
• Union County,  1,281; {+2}; 31