IowaBio wants to provide our members useful information during the COVID-19 pandemic. This newsletter compiles information on state, federal and industry action to combat the virus and its impacts.

If your company is helping respond to COVID-19, IowaBio wants to know about it. Please, send any information about what your biotechnology company or organization is doing to help, to Jessica Hyland at Jessica@iowabio.org.

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Past IowaBio COVID-19 Update newsletters are now available at www.iowabio.org/COVID19 and can be found under the Industry News tab on the IowaBio website.

Note: This is the last issue for this week. The COVID-19 Update will resume next Monday.

Key Statistics

Iowa
Currently, IDPH has reported on the state’s coronavirus dashboard, 53,201 Iowans have tested positive, up 372 from our update yesterday morning, with a total of 567,684 tested.  15 additional deaths were reported since our last update, bringing the total to 1002 deaths. Now 41,940 Iowans have recovered. The latest on hospitalizations, including how many patients have been admitted in the last 24 hours can be found here.

School district statistics including positivity rates by county can be found here. According to guidance issued by the Iowa Department of Education, schools may petition to go to hybrid or online learning when the per county percentage positivity rates are above 15 percent in a county on average over the past 14 days (rolling average) AND 10% absenteeism among students is expected for in-person learning.

US
Total Cases 5,422,242
Total Deaths 169,870

World
Total Cases 22,164, 232
Total Deaths 781,520

BIO Pipeline Tracker
698 Unique compounds in development
179 vaccines
188 antivirals
331 treatments