Statewide Iowa — State officials report there now are nearly 200 cases of COVID-19 in Linn County, and the latest death in the state is of an elderly Linn County resident over the age of 81.
By Tuesday night, 122 patients were being treated at Iowa hospitals for COVID-19. That’s been a recent double-digit increase in the number of reported hospitalizations, but Sarah Reisetter of the Iowa Department of Public Health says that’s partly because of new reporting guidelines.
(As above) “Previously we had been asking public health agencies to follow up with patients to determine hospitalization status,” Reisetter says. “Over the course of the last weekend, we put out a mandatory reporting order and we’re asking hospitals to report that information to us directly.”
Reisetter says that means the information is more up-to-date. Testing has identified a total of 11-hundred-45 positive cases of COVID-19 in Iowa.
