The Associated Press
DES MOINES Iowa public health officials reported a rise in coronavirus-related hospitalizations Thursday with a 36 percent increase in patients admitted in the last 24 hours and a slight increase in patients remaining in hospitals fighting the virus.
Iowa Department of Public Health Data shows 235 people remain hospitalized Thursday, up from 219 the day before. Admissions in the last 24 hours surged to 52, an increase from 38 in the previous 24-hour period.
The numbers are significantly lower than in early November when Iowa reached a peak of virus infections and was admitting more than 200 patients a day. But virus activity has increased in Iowa in recent weeks, a trend blamed in part to circulation of more easily spread variants first found in Europe and Brazil.
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