The new cases were identified in 4,821 tests, for a positivity rate of 41.94 percent.
The numbers, collected from the 24-hour period ending at 11 a.m. Wednesday, brings Iowa’s death toll from the virus to 3,668 since March and total number of cases to 271,022.
Linn County on Wednesday reported 81 new cases for a total of 16,150 cases since March. The county also reported two deaths, bringing its death toll to 234.
Johnson County reported 55 new cases, bringing its total to 10,716 cases since March.
Hospitalizations
Hospitalizations continued to decline, falling from 651 to 644.
The number of patients in intensive care also ticked down, from 140 to 139. The number of patients on ventilators remained at 71.
Shipments of the newly approved novel coronavirus vaccine developed by Moderna arrived at Corridor hospitals on Tuesday.
Moderna’s vaccine, which received federal emergency use authorization late last week, arrives in Eastern Iowa just one week after the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were shipped nationwide.
The new batch is the first vaccine shipment for many hospitals statewide, including Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, making this week’s arrival a “monumental moment” in the pandemic for these facilities, said hospital spokesman Aaron Scheinblum. Two hundred doses arrived at Mercy Iowa City on Tuesday.
University of Iowa Health Care Chief Pharmacy Officer Mike Brownlee confirmed his campus received 1,500 doses of the Moderna vaccine and would finish using its current allotment of the version developed by Pfizer-BioNTech before tapping the new shipment.