Worth County reports third COVID-related death in two days

MASON CITY — Worth County has seen its third COVID-19-related death reported in two days.

After two deaths were reported in the county between Monday and Tuesday, the Iowa Department of Public Health’s coronavirus website shows another death has been reported in the time period between midday Tuesday and midday Wednesday. That brings Worth County’s total number of deaths during the pandemic to seven and the ten-county listening area’s total to 360.

In the same 24-hour period, 35 new COVID-19 cases were identified in our listening area while 36 more recoveries were reported. Two positive cases each in Butler and Hancock counties were misidentified previously and moved to other counties.

The active COVID-19 case count in our listening area slightly declined from 1715 on Tuesday to 1713 today. That number is down by 95 people when compared to last Friday when the Iowa Department of Public Health started to include data if a person had multiple positive tests.

In the north-central Iowa medical region, 16 people were hospitalized with COVID, down from 18 on Tuesday. Four patients are in an intensive care unit, the same as Tuesday, with three of those patients being on a ventilator.

 

Deaths	Total	Underlying Cause	Contributing Factor	New
Cerro Gordo	80	68	12
Butler	31	28	3
Floyd	39	30	9
Franklin	19	18	1
Hancock	29	24	5
Kossuth	54	47	7
Mitchell	40	38	2
Winnebago	30	25	5
Worth	7	6	1	1
Wright	31	26	5
Area Total	360	310	50	1

 

 

Confirmed Cases	Total	New
Cerro Gordo	5311	10
Butler	1654	-2
Floyd	1621	4
Franklin	1183	2
Hancock	1462	-2
Kossuth	2068	8
Mitchell	1299	1
Winnebago	1374	9
Worth	688	2
Wright	1791	3
Area Total	18451	35

 

 

Recovered	Total	New
Cerro Gordo	4715	15
Butler	1496	2
Floyd	1384	1
Franklin	1027	3
Hancock	1312	4
Kossuth	1809	8
Mitchell	1146	0
Winnebago	1206	0
Worth	621	1
Wright	1662	2
Area Total	16378	36

 

 

Active Cases	2/24/21	2/23/21	2/19/21	2/1/21	1/1/21	12/1/20	11/1/20	10/1/20
	Wednesday	Tuesday	Last Friday	February 1st	January 1st	December 1st	November 1st	October 1st
Cerro Gordo	516	521	544	410	549	1807	477	192
Butler	127	131	139	211	175	517	82	20
Floyd	198	195	202	119	130	550	60	48
Franklin	137	138	146	128	133	305	42	18
Hancock	121	127	141	139	235	408	134	21
Kossuth	205	205	216	260	269	535	176	161
Mitchell	113	112	114	104	173	447	119	69
Winnebago	138	129	141	125	123	359	192	119
Worth	60	60	60	84	126	118	46	27
Wright	98	97	105	128	183	410	182	67
Area Total	1713	1715	1808	1708	2096	5526	1510	742