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Staff nurse Rachel Lewis administers the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to emergency room nurse David Conway at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Conway, who works with COVID-19 patients on a daily basis, was the first individual in Iowa to receive the vaccine. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Washington senior Deon Harrison applauds as he listens to a speaker at the Cedar Rapids Community School District’s Black Student Unions Cookout at the African American Museum of Iowa in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. The event, sponsored by the district and Advocates for Social Justice, brought together black student organizations from the city’s schools. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
The day before Christmas Eve, 18-year-old Brooklyn Soroka of Norwalk, Iowa, was at work when she received a phone call letting her know she would be receiving the ultimate Christmas gift this year: a new heart. At midnight on Christmas Eve, her transplant was completed successfully. According to Dr. Aditya Badheka on the pediatric intensive care team at University of Iowa Stead Family Childrenâs Hospital, Brooklyn is recovering well and doctors are optimistic about the long-term success of the transplant.
Brooklyn was put on the transplant list in February 2020 after doctors at University of Iowa Health Care noticed her heart conditions were progressing. She has mixed cardiomyopathies â a relatively rare combination of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and restrictive cardiomyopathy.
IOWA CITY - University of Iowa Health Care is expanding its role in the global effort to find vaccines against COVID-19 by beginning to enroll volunteers for another trial.
The new cases were identified in 4,821 tests, for a positivity rate of 41.94 percent.
The numbers, collected from the 24-hour period ending at 11 a.m. Wednesday, brings Iowa’s death toll from the virus to 3,668 since March and total number of cases to 271,022.
Linn County on Wednesday reported 81 new cases for a total of 16,150 cases since March. The county also reported two deaths, bringing its death toll to 234.
Johnson County reported 55 new cases, bringing its total to 10,716 cases since March.
Hospitalizations
Hospitalizations continued to decline, falling from 651 to 644.
The number of patients in intensive care also ticked down, from 140 to 139. The number of patients on ventilators remained at 71.