Statewide Iowa — The COVID patient count in Iowa hospitals has reached 777 — another record high for 2021. It’s a seven percent increase since last Wednesday.
Theresa Brennan is the Chief Medical Officer at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Brennan says the hospital continue to prepare for more COVID patients — including transfers from other hospitals — while employees are exhausted from the pandemic.
On Tuesday, the hospital on the University of Iowa campus had 40 adult COVID patients and three pediatric patients, under the age of 18, with the virus. Nearly 120 other patients with flu and COVID symptoms were screened by telephone or video conference Tuesday according to the hospital’s website. As of Wednesday, the Iowa Department of Public Health has confirmed more than 7,500 Iowans have died of COVID.
