(Radio Iowa) – The number of Iowa hospital patients who’ve tested positive for Covid has increased 12 percent since Wednesday. The Iowa Department of Public Health’s website shows nearly 900 hospital patients in the state have tested positive for Covid and 19 percent of them are in intensive care.

Eight out of 10 Covid patients in the I-C-U are not vaccinated. Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids keeps track of the positivity rate among all its patients on a rolling, seven day average. It’s up to 32 percent today.

About 56 percent of Iowans are fully vaccinated. The more contagious omicron variant of the virus is now the dominant varient in Iowa according to Centers for Disease Control.