The state of Iowa has now experienced over a quarter of a million cases of COVID-19. With nearly 15-hundred new positives since midday yesterday, the state count is now at 250, 279. 27 of the new cases in Story County, 15 in Jasper County. Only 7 new cases in Marshall County.

Hospitalizations continue to slide. 863 Iowans were in their hospital rooms last night, 189 of those in ICU.