New COVID-19 cases are increasing in Iowa. | File Photo
New COVID-19 cases are increasing in Iowa. | File Photo
Iowa’s COVID-19 cases increase at an accelerated rate.
As of Sept. 13, Iowa’s cases had increased by 9,167 over seven days, KCCI Des Moines reported. There have been 6,337 overall coronavirus deaths in Iowa.
“'Once COVID is over' is starting to sound a lot like 'once Iowa State beats Iowa,'” Twitter user Shea Ruffridge said in a tweet Sept. 11.
A little over 80% of coronavirus patients in hospitals are not fully vaccinated, KCCI reported. The state’s vaccination rate of those 18 and older was 64.6% as of Sept. 13. A two-week report that ended on Sept. 12 found that the state’s average percent of new cases increased over that period, Times Republican reported.
The report also found that hospitalizations increased at a slower rate. As of Sept. 12, hospitalizations in the state had gone up 3% in two weeks, Times Republican reported.
There are 549 coronavirus patients in hospitals in Iowa and 153 in intensive care, with 64 coming in during the last 24 hours, according to KCCI Des Moines. Of coronavirus cases in the ICU, 89.5% are not vaccinated.
There is nonetheless progress with vaccines in Iowa with 360,876 people vaccinated in Iowa, as reported by KCCI Des Moines. Even with those numbers new coronavirus cases in Iowa have increased by 27% over the past two weeks with a 1.6% hospitalization rate and a 12.2% rate of positive tests.
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