The Iowa Department of Public Health in their latest COVID-19 update, Friday (today) reports 107 additional, positive cases of COVID-19 from over the previous 24-hours, for a pandemic total of 402,929. The Coronavirus dashboard also shows 11 additional deaths, for a total of 6,095. Deaths at Iowa’s Long-Term Care facilities since the start of the pandemic, amount to 2,370.

There remain four LTC outbreaks in Iowa, with 30 positive cases among patients and staff, and four persons who have recovered. Iowa’s 14-day and seven-day positivity rates are both down slightly, to 1.8%.

Iowa’s hospitalization data show: 73 people are hospitalized with COVID-19; 18 patients are in an ICU; 12 COVID patients were admitted to a hospital, and six patients are on a ventilator. In RMCC Region 4 (hospitals in western & southwest Iowa), there are two people hospitalized with COVID-19. No one was in an ICU, no one was admitted over the previous 24-hours, and no one was on a ventilator.

In the immediate KJAN listening area, here are the current number positive cases by County (since the beginning of the pandemic) and the total number of deaths (Since the beginning of the pandemic) in each county to date:
Cass, 1,477 cases; 54 deaths
Adair, 993; 32
Adams, 355; 4
Audubon, 546; 10
Guthrie, 1,313; 32
Harrison County, 1,935; 73
Madison County, 1,787 19
Mills County, 1,797; 24
Montgomery, 1,115; 38
Pottawattamie County, 12,340;173
Shelby County, 1,375; 37
Union County, 1,381; 35