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.
Iowa Update
Governor Kim Reynolds will hold a press conference from Iowa PBS at 11 am today. The event will be livestreamed and posted in full on Governor Reynolds’ Facebook Page.
Key Statistics
Currently, IDPH has reported on the state’s coronavirus dashboard, 260,221 Iowans have tested positive, up 1,970 from our update yesterday morning, with a total of 1,294,598 tested. 67 additional deaths were reported since our last update, bringing the total to 3,340 deaths. Now 196,145 Iowans have recovered. The total 14 day rolling average positivity rate is 13.9% the past 7-day average is 10.5%. The latest on hospitalizations, including how many patients have been admitted in the last 24 hours can be found here. There are currently 798 hospitalized patients.
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 with less than 50 percent in-person instruction 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. School district waiver requests and whether they are granted or denied are listed here.
Currently 47 (of 99) counties are above a 15 percent positivity rate over the past 14 days. Click here to search county data for today.
US
Total Cases 16,317,892
Total Deaths 300,032
World
Total Cases 73,613,809
Total Deaths 1,638,565
BIO Pipeline Tracker
788 Unique compounds in development
194 vaccines
221 antivirals
373 treatments
Sincerely,
Jessica
Jessica Hyland, J.D.
Executive Director
Iowa Biotechnology Association
Cell: (515) 822-1315
Office: (515) 327-9156
Fax: (515) 327-1407 jessica@iowabio.org www.iowabio.org
