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Only 50 of Iowa’s 409 nursing homes are reporting that three-quarters or more of their workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Only 50 of Iowa’s 409 nursing homes are reporting that three-quarters or more of their workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19, newly disclosed records show.
That means 88% of Iowa’s nursing homes have yet to meet the industry’s stated standard of having at least three-fourths of their workforce vaccinated against the virus.
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began publishing COVID-19 vaccination data from individual nursing homes on its COVID-19 Nursing Home Data website.
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One more Kossuth County resident has died from COVID-19, pushing hte total to 45. As of Friday, there had been 6,927 tests; 1,839 positive tests; and 1,540 recoveries. Friday s positivity rate is 19.1 percent, just above Shelby County for highest in Iowa.
KOSSUTH COUNTY COVID-19 UPDATE: Thursday, Jan. 28, 11 a.m.:
In late November and early December, the positivity rate of those tested for COVID-19 in Kossuth County was the highest in the state, topping out at more than 30 percent over a two-week period, meaning during that time, 3 in 10 people who were tested were discovered to be positive for the virus. The positivity rate declined to less than 12 percent in early January, but it bounced back to 26 percent as of Jan. 18, when it became the highest in the state. As of Jan. 28, it remains the highest in the state at 19.3 percent.