CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL)– The Linn County Public Health Department has rolled out a series of tools for COVID-19 related cases in the county.
Presently, there are 507 positive cases in Linn County, 34 deaths, and 239 homeowners have recovered, according to Linn County Public Health website
The site includes public health data such the age, race, and gender of COVID-19 patients.
The website also permits Linn County residents to see COVID-19 cases in their neighborhood by zip code. Presently, the 52404 postal code, which includes portions of SW Cedar Rapids, has the largest number of cases at243
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Throughout today’s Linn County news conference public health provided 2 charts that showed COVID-19 infection information in Linn County through 10 a.m. on April23
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The first graph revealed the number of positive coronavirus cases in Linn County increasing every day because the very first confirmed case on March 20.
As of 10 a.m. on April 23, these numbers are:
- Ages 0-17: 5 (5) validated cases
- Ages 18-40: 187 verified cases
- Ages 41-60: 161 verified cases
- Ages 61-80: 99 validated cases
- Ages 80 and over: 48 confirmed cases
” As you can see, we have not yet strike the peak, and we’re still trending up, so we need to be persistent and increase our efforts to meet this challenge. I thank you for your efforts to date. Envision just how much worse this might have been without your sacrifices,” Linn County Manager Stacey Walker stated, “This data likewise reveals that COVID-19 does not discriminate by age. The death rate may be greater for people 60 and older, however youths are not unsusceptible to the intensities of this disease. We need you to be extra cautious as a community and not end up being contented as the weather enhances.”
Public Health continues to deal with and keep an eye on long term care facilities with COVID-19 outbreaks. There are now three long term care centers with COVID-19 outbreaks, as defined by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
A break out is any facility with three or more cases of COVID-19 amongst homeowners.
Heritage Specialized Care now has 110 favorable cases connected with the center, 22 locals have passed away, and 72 have actually recovered.
At Linn Manor Care Center in Marion, 22 personnel and locals have actually evaluated positive and 5 homeowners have passed away.
Manor Care Health Services, who was simply identified today with an outbreak, has 10 citizens and staff who have evaluated positive. There are no deaths associated with this break out at this time.
