Johnson County has lost as many to COVID-19 in 3 weeks as it lost in the pandemic's first two months in Iowa
At 10 a.m. Thursday, Iowa was reporting an additional 649 cases of COVID-19 and 13 additional COVID-19-related deaths — including one from Johnson County, the county's eighth in three weeks — since the state's tally at 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to Coronavirus.Iowa.gov.
State officials report a total of 906 people with COVID-19 have died from the disease across the state, including 16 in Johnson County. Between June and the first part of July, the county had gone more than seven weeks without reporting a death related to the disease. The county saw its first death, Regina High School P.E. teacher and football coach John DeMarco, on April 4.
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A total of 505,050 Iowans have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus, which causes the disease, including 24,536 in Johnson County. A total of 47,141 have tested positive in Iowa.
As of 10 a.m. Thursday, the state was reporting a total of 2,012 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Johnson County, an increase of 33 from 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Hospitalizations related to the virus in southeast Iowa returned to levels not seen since April 26 on Wednesday. As of 10 a.m. Thursday, 61 people were hospitalized with the virus in the state's fifth Regional Medical Coordination Center, which includes Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Muscatine, Scott, Van Buren, Wapello and Washington counties, down from 70 Wednesday. The region hit a peak of 88 hospitalized patients on April 22.
Twenty-five patients were being cared for in the region's intensive care units Thursday morning, down from 32 Wednesday, which had been the most seen in the region since May 7 but still below the region's peak of 39 on April 22. According to the state's coronavirus website, the region has 446 general hospital beds and 90 ICU beds available for area coronavirus patients.
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Coronavirus in Iowa, by the numbers
Numbers reported by the state for Johnson County and all of Iowa, respectively, as of 10 a.m. Thursday. Numbers in parentheses represent change over the previous 24 hours.
Total tested: 24,536 (+312); 505,050 (+7,005)
Total confirmed: 2,012 (+33, or 10.58%); 47,141 (+649, or 9.26%)
14-day average positivity rate: 8%
Total recoveries: 1,466 (+27); 35,469 (+809)
Total deaths: 16 (+1); 906 (+13)
Hospitalized in RMCC Region 5: 61 (-9)
Receiving ICU care in RMCC Region 5: 25 (-7)
RMCC Region 5 includes Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Muscatine, Scott, Van Buren, Wapello and Washington counties.
Source: Iowa Department of Public Health