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Iowa reports long-term-care data only for for Skilled Nursing Facilities according to outreach with Iowa's information public officers. Iowa reports deaths cumulatively and cases associated with current outbreaks. According to conversations CTP had with health officials, Iowa defines an outbreak as a facility with three or more cases in a 14-day period. Cumulative deaths include deaths from outbreak and non-outbreak facilities. Residents and staff are reported combined for cases and deaths. Data is updated on an ad hoc basis.

Iowa has provided a varied set of metrics both directly to CTP and through their COVID-19 dashboard. Iowa provides outbreak totals for long-term-care data and, occasionally, cumulative totals via email to CTP. On November 26, 2020, in an effort try and provide the best estimate of cumulative cases, we began to use the highest outbreak total of cases and subtract the most recent cumulative data provided by the state health department. That difference is added to the cumulative data to best estimate a cumulative number. Because of this methodology, our estimated cumulative case total for Iowa is likely an undercount.

August 6, 2020: Iowa Department of Health provided CTP with cumulative totals, citing 2355 cumulative staff and resident cases, on July 16, 2020. CTP carried over that total until August 6, 2020.

September 10, 2020: Iowa Department of Health provided CTP with cumulative resident and staff cases, citing 2,461 cases as of September 9, 2020.

September 24, 2020: Iowa Department of Health provided CTP with cumulative resident and staff cases, citing 3,998 cases as of September 24, 2020.

October 1, 2020: Iowa Department of Health provided CTP with cumulative resident and staff cases, citing 4,081 cases as of October 1, 2020.

October 22, 2020: Iowa Department of Health provided CTP with cumulative resident positives. Previously, Iowa lumped staff and resident positives together. From this date forward, cumulative resident positives provided by Iowa are in the "resident" category and the remaining staff/resident positives will staff in the resident/staff positives category.

October 29, 2020: Iowa Department of Health did not provide CTP with an update on cumulative resident and staff cases. CTP carried forward data from October 15, 2020.

November 5, 2020: Iowa Department of Health provided CTP with an update on cumulative resident and staff cases.

November 12, 2020: Iowa Department of Health did not provide CTP with an update on cumulative resident and staff cases. CTP carried forward data from November 5, 2020.

November 19, 2020: Iowa Department of Health did not provide CTP with an update on cumulative resident and staff cases. CTP carried forward data from November 5, 2020.

November 26, 2020: Iowa Department of Health did not provide CTP with an update on cumulative resident cases. CTP carried forward the data from November 5, 2020.

December 17, 2020: Iowa Department of Health did not provide CTP with an update on cumulative resident cases. CTP carried forward the data from November 5, 2020.

January 14, 2021: Iowa does not report staff/resident deaths as combined. Deaths are now reported for long-term care residents only.

December 31, 2020 - February 11, 2021: Iowa Department of Health did not provide CTP with an update on cumulative resident cases. CTP carried forward the data from December 23, 2020.

DateTotal CasesTotal DeathsFacilities impacted
March 4, 20216,0852,188303
February 25, 20216,0852,157303
February 18, 20216,0852,137302
February 11, 20216,0852,131302
February 4, 20216,0852,070300
January 28, 20216,0851,888298
January 21, 20216,0851,839292
January 14, 20215,9551,725290
January 7, 20215,9551,139283
December 31, 20205,9551,139270
December 24, 20205,9551,137268
December 17, 20205,9551,135261
December 10, 20205,8301,129247
December 3, 20205,3471,081230
November 26, 20205,3471,024213
November 19, 20205,347972154
November 12, 20205,347920146
November 5, 20205,347873132
October 29, 20205,221831123
October 22, 20204,983794108
October 15, 20204,98375894
October 8, 20204,97472586
October 1, 20204,08170263
September 24, 20203,99867757
September 17, 20202,46165957
September 10, 20202,46164547
September 3, 20202,35560640
August 27, 20202,35558431
August 20, 20202,35554431
August 13, 20202,355516N/A
August 6, 20202,355489N/A
July 30, 20202,355465N/A
July 23, 20202,355441N/A
July 16, 20202,355417N/A
July 9, 20201,543392N/A
July 2, 20201,543381N/A
June 25, 20201,543359N/A
June 18, 20201,543352N/A
June 11, 20201,543339N/A
June 4, 20201,543291N/A
May 28, 20201,543227N/A
May 21, 20201,543227N/A