For the first time in the pandemic, Iowa has over 500 folks hospitalized with the virus. This morning finds 501 in the hospital, 122 of those in ICU.

535 new cases of the rona since midday yesterday reported, for a grand total of 108,115. 20 of those cases in Story County, 6 in Tama County and one each in Marshall and Grundy counties.

A dozen additional deaths, one in Tama County, for a  statewide total of 1,548.