More than 100,000 people in Linn County are fully vaccinated against COVID-19

More than 100,000 people in Linn County are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health.

As of 1:30 p.m. Friday, 100,101 people in Linn County had been fully vaccinated. That’s 44.15 percent of the county’s total population and 55.48 percent of the 16-and-over population.

In Johnson County, 76,309 people have been fully vaccinated. That’s 50.49 percent of the county’s total population and 61.38 percent of the 16-and-over population.

Across the state, 1,255,496 Iowans had completed the COVID-19 vaccine by Friday afternoon, an increase of 10,565 from Thursday. That’s 39.79 percent of the state’s population and 46.91 percent of the Iowans 12 and older.

The number of people who have been fully vaccinated within the state, including non-Iowans, was 1,305,749.

The state reported 1,200,368 individuals have completed the Moderna or Pfizer two-shot regimen while 105,381 people have received the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

The number of total doses administered in the state as of Friday afternoon was 2,679,228.

New cases

Iowa on Friday added 176 new COVID-19 cases, with a seven-day average for new cases of 186.

Since March 2020, 370,330 Iowans have tested positive for the virus.

Linn County added six new COVID-19 cases as of 11 a.m. Friday, with a seven-day average of new cases of 14. Since March 2020, 20.970 residents have tested positive for the virus.

Johnson County reported four new cases and a seven-day average of six. To date, 14,524 cases of the virus have been reported in the county.

Thirty-one of the new cases reported in Iowa on Friday were among children up to age 17, bringing the total in that age group to 44,311.

Deaths

Iowa reported 10 new, confirmed COVID-19 deaths Friday, bringing the state’s death toll to 6,035.

Four of the deaths were among individuals age 81 or older; four were between 61 and 80; one was between 41 and 60; and one was between 18 and 40.

The deaths occurred between March 14 and May 16.

Muscatine County reported two deaths. Counties reporting one death each were Linn, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Kossuth, Marshall, Polk, and Pottawattamie. The location of one death was not reported.

Hospitalizations

Across the state, virus hospitalizations dropped from 146 to 142 during the 24-hour period ending at 11 a.m. Friday.

The number of COVID-19 intensive-care patients dipped from 45 to 42, and the number of patients on ventilators dropped from 24 to 20.

Long-term care

Two long-term care facilities in Iowa are experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks, with a total of 17 individuals sick.

An outbreak is three or more cases among a facility’s residents and staff.

To date, 2,355 individuals in these facilities have died as the result of COVID-19, an increase of five since Thursday.

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Katie Brumbeloe of The Gazette contributed.