Ames

The number of hospitalizations relative to the number of tests conducted actually went down by one percent — check the numbers — the week prior was 189 hospitalizations out of 4273; this last week it was 257 hospitalizations out of 6892 or a decrease in percentage from 4.42% to 3.73%. And what about the people hospitalized — were they in there for intensive care or non-intensive care? if you check out those numbers you’ll see the ICU percentage rate the week prior was 21% and the percentage rate for this last week was 21% —- no change.