Covid-19
Hospitalizations rise as new admissions jump
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DES MOINES, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 data shows an increase of 458 confirmed cases of the virus from 10:00 a.m. on February 13 to 10:00 a.m. on February 14. Those new cases come from 1,975 new tests. The positivity rate of those new tests is 23.2%.
118,673 people in Iowa are now completely vaccinated against COVID-19 – 5,744 more than Thursday morning.
No new deaths were reported over the last 24-hour stretch – with 5,236 Iowans now dead from COVID-19 during the pandemic.
There are now 328,640 total cases confirmed in Iowa from 1,511,675 people tested for COVID-19.
301,174 Iowans are now classified as recovering from the virus – with 599 recoveries added in the last 24 hours.
240 people are now hospitalized in Iowa because of COVID-19. 57 of those patients are in the ICU. 29 of the patients are on ventilators. 54 new patients were admitted to Iowa hospitals over the last 24-hour period measured by IDPH.
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