Statewide Iowa — The COVID patient count in Iowa hospitals continues to rise.
According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, there were 823 patients with COVID in Iowa hospitals by the middle of this week, a six percent increase from last week. More than 100 of those patients are on ventilators and nearly 83 percent of COVID patients in intensive care units in Iowa have not been vaccinated against the virus.
The death toll from COVID-related illnesses in Iowa is approaching 77-hundred since the pandemic began last year.
