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Greene County has recently seen its number of positive COVID-19 cases increase dramatically over the past two weeks.

According to the state COVID dashboard, Greene County went from 67 positive cases on September 8th to 91 on Tuesday. However, the county’s positivity rate decreased from 8.7-percent to 6.2-percent for the same time period. Greene County Public Health Director Becky Wolf says the state’s website has lots of different results, including hospitalizations, positivity rate and positive cases per 100,000 people. She tells Raccoon Valley Radio the number of people who have been hospitalized has changed from the total number to the past 24-hours. Wolf notes the positivity rate is based on the previous 14 day period of those who tested positive. Finally, Wolf explains the positive cases per 100,000 people rate.

“We know that we don’t have 100,000 people in Greene County. With that particular number, what we’re doing is we’re trying to calculate it and making it an even steven across the board comparison of numbers regardless of what your population is. It’s just looking in comparison with all the other counties in Iowa, if we use a case per 100,000 that’s how we would rate.”    

The state report shows that no one in Greene County has been hospitalized in the past 24 hours, and the county’s 91 positive cases translates to 1,013 cases per 100,000. As of Tuesday, 1,849 Greene County residents have been tested for the virus and 4.9-percent of individuals have tested positive.