Earlier today, I shared the statewide numbers for coronavirus in Iowa: 10 more deaths, hospitalizations up to 402, and 1,107 new confirmed cases.
We now know the new cases included 108 more kids under age 18, up to 7,762.
Now for the county-by-county data:
The 77 counties where Gov. Reynolds first loosened Iowa's limited restrictions May 1, without an alternative safety plan, were up 539 new cases for total of 36,189 cases.
They had 4 deaths reported, for a total of 470.
On April 30, they had 559 total cases and 11 total deaths.
Sioux County (pop. 35,000) had the most new cases in the 77 counties.
For 17 of the last 18 days, it has had more new cases than Story (pop. 97,000) and Johnson (pop. 147,000).
Sioux: 51
Story: 16
Johnson: 21
Gov. Reynolds, doing anything to stop the spread in Sioux?
Biggest case increases, total cases, new tests reported (% is new cases divided by new tests reported) in the 77 counties:
Sioux: Up 51 to 1,848 – 140 tests (36.4%)
Plymouth: Up 27 to 1,251 – 94 tests (28.7%), 1 death
Pottawattamie: Up 27 to 2,314 – 174 tests (15.5%), 1 death
Carroll: Up 22 to 739 – 52 tests (42.3%)
O’Brien: Up 20 to 451 – 50 tests (40.0%)
Crawford: Up 20 to 1,147 – 39 tests (51.3%)
Page: Up 18 to 237 – 15 tests (120.0%)*
Lyon: Up 18 to 419 – 53 tests (34.0%)
Story: Up 16 to 3,546 – 102 tests (15.7%)
*As reported today
. . .
Delaware: Up 15 to 494 – 29 tests (51.7%), 1 death
Clinton: Up 15 to 1,181 – 91 tests (16.5%)
Cherokee: Up 13 to 291 – 40 tests (32.5%)
Harrison: Up 13 to 310 – 62 tests (21.0%)
Guthrie: Up 12 to 287 – 28 tests (42.9%)
Buena Vista: Up 12 to 2,042 – 62 tests (19.4%)
. . .
Jackson: Up 10 to 391 – 59 tests (16.9%)
Marion: Up 10 to 797 – 51 tests (19.6%)
Lee: Up 9 to 690 – 37 tests (24.3%)
Greene: Up 8 to 125 – 15 tests (53.3%)
Mills: Up 8 to 219 – 52 tests (15.4%)
Kossuth: Up 8 to 312 – 30 tests (26.7%)
. . .
Boone: Up 8 to 550 – 33 tests (24.2%)
Butler: Up 7 to 291 – 19 tests (36.8%)
Clay: Up 7 to 369 – 63 tests (11.1%)
Dickinson: Up 7 to 569 – 52 tests (13.5%), 1 death
Wapello: Up 7 to 1,372 – 60 tests (11.7%)
Webster: Up 7 to 1,388 – 40 tests (17.5%)
. . .
Fremont: Up 6 to 138 – 12 tests (50.0%)
Ida: Up 6 to 145 – 16 tests (37.5%)
Madison: Up 6 to 261 – 34 tests (17.6%)
Clayton: up 6 to 281 – 31 tests (19.4%)
Chickasaw: Up 6 to 287 – 22 tests (27.3%)
. . .
Hardin: Up 6 to 323 – 27 tests (22.2%)
Floyd: Up 6 to 374 – 21 tests (28.6%)
Audubon: Up 5 to 103 – 10 tests (50.0%)
Jefferson: Up 5 to 149 – 30 tests (16.7%)
Palo Alto: Up 5 to 229 – 24 tests (20.8%)
Sac: Up 5 to 286 – 33 tests (15.2%)
. . .
Emmet: Up 5 to 292 – 26 tests (19.2%)
Jones: Up 5 to 309 – 35 tests (14.3%)
Buchanan: Up 5 to 313 – 38 tests (13.2%)
Decatur: Up 4 to 76 – 21 tests (19.0%)
Cass: Up 4 to 192 – 29 tests (13.8%)
Hancock: Up 4 to 212 – 19 tests (21.1%)
. . .
Grundy: Up 4 to 238 – 10 tests (40.0%)
Cedar: Up 4 to 274 – 32 tests (12.5%)
Warren: Up 4 to 994 – 77 tests (5.2%)
Cerro Gordo: Up 4 to 1,105 – 42 tests (9.5%)
Montgomery: Up 3 to 108 – 12 tests (25.0%)
Van Buren: Up 3 to 126 – 6 tests (50.0%)
. . .
Union: Up 3 to 152 – 16 tests (18.8%)
Pocahontas: Up 3 to 177 – 13 tests (23.1%)
Howard: Up 3 to 196 – 9 tests (33.3%)
Humboldt: Up 3 to 201 – 13 tests (23.1%)
Winnebago: Up 3 to 337 – 17 tests (17.6%)
Wayne: Up 2 to 91 – 3 tests (66.7%)
Keokuk: Up 2 to 125 – 13 tests (15.4%)
Taylor: Up 2 to 159 – 14 tests (14.3%)
Shelby: Up 2 to 282 – 20 tests (10.0%)
Winneshiek: Up 2 to 350 – 26 tests (7.7%)
Wright: Up 2 to 609 – 22 tests (9.1%)
. . .
One new case: Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Lucas, Mahaska, Monona, Worth.
Range of tests reported: Lucas was up 1 with 7 tests reported (14.3%) while Mahaska was up 1 with 44 tests reported (2.3%).
Overall, 68 of the 77 counties had new cases reported.
. . .
No new cases: Adair, Appanoose (adjusted down one), Calhoun, Clarke, Davis, Mitchell, Monroe, Osceola, Ringgold.
Best day in the state: Davis and Mitchell with 0 new cases and 16 tests reported.
Least testing: Ringgold with 1 test reported.
. . .
Now for the 22 counties where Gov. Reynolds repeatedly loosened Iowa's limited restrictions without an alternative safety plan starting in mid-May:
No new cases: None (for two days in a row).
One new case: Louisa (16 tests reported)
Two new cases: None.
. . .
Fayette: Up 3 to 247 – 38 tests (7.9%)
Allamakee: Up 3 to 269 – 22 tests (13.6%)
Bremer: Up 3 to 520 – 38 tests (7.9%)
Muscatine: Up 6 to 1,156 – 60 tests (10.0%)
Marshall: Up 6 to 1,826 – 72 tests (8.3%)
Poweshiek: Up 8 to 344 – 44 tests (18.2%)
. . .
Benton: Up 9 to 359 – 55 tests (16.4%)
Jasper: Up 9 to 904 – 82 tests (11.0%)
Washington: Up 11 to 513 – 64 tests (17.2%)
Iowa: Up 12 to 247 – 36 tests (33.3%)
Des Moines: Up 14 to 871 – 89 tests (15.7%)
Tama: Up 20 to 790 – 48 tests (41.7%)
. . .
Henry: Up 21 to 833 – 44 tests (47.7%)
Johnson: Up 21 to 5,251 – 246 tests (8.5%), 1 death
Dallas: Up 22 to 2,918 – 171 tests (12.9%)
Black Hawk: Up 29 to 4,624 – 211 tests (13.7%)
Linn: Up 54 to 4,335 – 448 tests (12.1%)
Scott: Up 57 to 3,272 – 437 tests (13.0%)
. . .
Dubuque: Up 82 to 3,643 – 261 tests (31.4%). 1 death
Woodbury: Up 91 to 5,878 – 328 tests (27.7%)
Polk: Up 92 to 16,421 – 740 tests (12.4%), 4 deaths
Too many cases and too many deaths!
This is a public health emergency. Even Gov. Reynolds says that. Please act like it.
Now for some specific regions and groups . . .
If you'd like more data about a specific county, region, or group of counties, let me know and I'll do my best to provide it.
Email: rob [dot] hogg [at] legis [dot] iowa [dot] gov.
BREAKING: Over 4,900 kids in Iowa have now contracted coronavirus since January 29, the date when Gov. Reynolds signed Senate File 160 to force schools to offer 100% in-person without providing safety precautions.
(1/4)
Today, on limited testing, Iowa reported 44 new child cases, for a total of 4,916 since Jan. 29.
The 44 new child cases were out of 317 total new cases.
There were only 1,790 new people tested and only 5,818 total tests reported today.
(2/4)
Child cases are a danger to the kids themselves, now and in the future, as well as families, staff, and the public.
Here are the weekly coronavirus case and death data for Iowa, both statewide and by county, for the week of February 14-21, 2021.
For the week, Iowa reported:
100 more coronavirus deaths
286 new hospital admissions
3,475 new confirmed cases
Less bad, but still too high!
The 100 deaths reported this week (Feb. 14-21) in Iowa were lowest number of deaths reported for a Sunday-to-Sunday week since Oct. 25-Nov. 1 (82 deaths).
At 14.3 deaths per day, it's still 3rd leading cause of death behind heart disease (19.7 per day) & cancer (17.7 per day).
New hospital admissions for coronavirus in Iowa totaled 286 for second week in a row:
Iowa reports 17 more coronavirus deaths and 1,869 new coronavirus cases.
The 17 deaths are the second highest reported on a Sunday, and the 307 deaths reported since last Sunday (Nov. 29-Dec. 6) are highest for a 7-day period yet.
The 17 coronavirus deaths reported in Iowa today were in Black Hawk (3), Bremer, Butler, Floyd, Johnson, Keokuk, Linn, Marion, Polk, Pottawattamie (5), and Webster Counties.
Please speak up with Gov. Reynolds and legislators to do more to slow the spread of coronavirus and save lives.
Since the Republican majority adjourned the Iowa Legislature on June 14, over 2,000 Iowans have now died from this infectious disease (2,682 total now vs. 651 then).
Iowa Senate Republican Leader Jack Whitver writes: "it is impossible to legislate away the pandemic."
What a defeatist! With that attitude, no wonder over 2,000 Iowans have now died from coronavirus since the Republican majority adjourned June 14. (1/4)
Good public policy and leadership can stop or reduce the spread and save lives.
New Zealand has 5 coronavirus deaths per million people. Norway (like Iowa, not an island) has 65 deaths per million. In Iowa, it's 850 per million, more than 1 out of every 1,200 Iowans! (2/4)
Our neighbor to the north, Minnesota, which has higher population density, has fewer deaths than Iowa per million people. Minnesota has 706 deaths per million.
If Iowa had Minnesota's fatality rate, we would have 446 more Iowans alive today. (3/4)
Earlier today, I shared the statewide coronavirus toll Iowa reported for the 24-hour period from Dec. 4 at 10 am to Dec. 5 at 10 am, including 62 deaths (2,665 total) and 2,369 new confirmed cases (82,369 currently active).
Now for daily county data . . .
There are 77 counties where Gov. Reynolds loosened Iowa's limited coronavirus restrictions May 1, without an alternative safety plan.
On April 30, they had 559 total cases and 11 total deaths.
Today, they had 1,148 new cases (total 104,451) and 44 more deaths (total 1,190).
Coronavirus deaths in the 77 counties were reported in Adair, Appanoose, Butler (3), Carroll, Cass, Chickasaw, Clay, Clinton, Davis (2), Delaware, Floyd (2), Hamilton, Humboldt, Ida, Jefferson, Jones, Keokuk, Kossuth, Lee (2), Lyon, Marion (2), Mills, Mitchell, Monona, . . .
The 62 coronavirus deaths reported today in Iowa were in the following counties:
Adair
Appanoose
Black Hawk (2)
Butler (3)
Carroll
Cass
Chickasaw
Clay
Clinton
Davis (2)
Delaware
Dubuque
Floyd (2)
Hamilton
Henry
Humboldt
Ida
Jefferson
Johnson
Jones
Keokuk
Kossuth
Lee (2)
. . .
Coronavirus deaths reported today in Iowa by county (cont'd):
Linn
Lyon
Marion (2)
Marshall
Mills
Mitchell
Monona
Osceola
Palo Alto
Plymouth
Polk (5)
Pottawattamie (2)
Sac
Scott (3)
Shelby (3)
Story
Union
Warren (2)
Winneshiek
Woodbury (3)