(updated 10-a.m.) The latest data from the Iowa Department of Public Health’s Coronavirus dashboard shows the some notable improvements in case numbers and hospitalizations. On Friday (Today), the IDPH reports four additional deaths, for a pandemic total of 6,124, and 76 additional (positive) COVID test results, for a total of 404, 208. A COVID-19 outbreak was reported at the Friendship Home in Audubon, where there are 14 cases. The last time they had an outbreak, but overcame it, was during the week of June 10th. The latest Long-Term Care Center outbreak brings the total number of such facilities with outbreak in Iowa, to three, after having gone to two, just three days ago. There are now a total of 34 patients/staff at those three facilities, who have tested positive, and a total of 11 who have recovered. Deaths at LTC’s in Iowa currently stand at 2,372.

The number of persons hospitalized with COVID in Iowa, has dropped to 46. Health officials report 18 patients are in an ICU, two were admitted, and 12 patients are on a ventilator. For the first time since records were kept from the start of the pandemic, hospitals in RMCC Region 4 (those in western & southwest Iowa) report NO no cases, no one in an ICU, no one admitted and no one was on a ventilator.

The State’s 14-day positivity rate is 2%. The seven-day rate is 2.0%.

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, 1,475 cases; 55 deaths
Adair, 996; 32
Adams, 356; 4
Audubon, 553; 11
Guthrie, 1,317; 32
Harrison County, 1,935; 73
Madison County, 1,790 19
Mills County, 1,809; 24
Montgomery, 1,116; 38
Pottawattamie County, 12,367;174
Shelby County, 1,380; 37
Union County, 1,382; 35