Iowa’s recent snowfall belies the spring season soon to blossom. Chartreuse foliage that began to emerge during the short spate of warmth just a few days ago is now concealed under a layer of white, but another sure sign of spring takes place this weekend. Daylight Saving Time goes into effect at 2 a.m. Sunday, […]
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Iowa governor prepares for national spot...
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has been chosen to deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address — in part for her handling of the coronavirus pandemic — at the same time the state reports exceeding 9,000 COVID-19 deaths. As of Feb. 23, 2022, Iowa reported 9,085 COVID-19 deaths, up 137 […]
Iowa removes data website as state appro...
Iowa is no longer tracking COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes and has ended reporting of deaths and other information on its coronavirus website. The state also discovered 6,700 COVID-19 positive test results dating back to March 2020 that had not been previously reported. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, those test results were […]
More than one-quarter of Iowa nursing ho...
Outbreaks of COVID-19 at Iowa nursing homes continue to escalate, even as the state prepares to end data reporting on two websites as its disaster emergency expires. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds announced Feb. 3 that the state’s Public Health Disaster Emergency Proclamation will expire at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Reynolds said in […]
COVID-19 outbreaks escalate at nursing h...
UPDATE Jan. 26, 2022: Iowa has again reported a spike in COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes, with 86 , up 23 from just one week ago. The state also reported a fourth consecutive week of plus-100 deaths, with 184 COVID-19 deaths confirmed, for a total of 8,501. The most recent occurred between Oct. 29 and […]
Iowa surpasses another grim milestone in...
Deaths in Iowa from COVID-19 have topped 8,000, as of Jan. 5, 2022. The state reported 161 new coronavirus deaths since its last report one week ago, bringing the total to 8,019. The deaths occurred between Oct. 13 and Dec. 30, 2021. Hospitalizations also are rising after the holidays, with 792 Iowans hospitalized as of […]
Cedar Rapids school district ordered to ...
UPDATED: Dec. 15, 2021, with information about consent decree with Abatement Specialties. Just a few years after being ordered to create educational videos to settle asbestos violations at Washington High School, the Cedar Rapids Community School District has been ordered to pay a penalty for similar violations at Kennedy High School. Under the settlement with […]
Omicron variant confirmed in Iowa as sta...
On the heels of reporting record numbers of Iowans hospitalized this year due to COVID-19, health officials announced the state’s first confirmation of the Omicron variant. The Iowa Department of Public Health released the following on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021: The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the State Hygienic Lab (SHL) confirmdetection of […]
COVID-19 deaths hit another high in Iowa
UPDATE: As of Nov. 3, 2021, Iowa has surpassed 7,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, with 7,069 deaths reported since the beginning of the pandemic, an increase of 104 in the past week alone. Late last week, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that allows workers to skirt a federal vaccine mandate by claiming religious […]
COVID-19 hospitalizations spike as Iowa ...
A late-night posting of Iowa’s COVID-19 hospitalization data shows numbers skyrocketing just as the state’s biggest event of the year kicks off. The Iowa State Fair, which runs Aug. 12-22, 2021, has attracted more than 1 million visitors in recent years, with the exception of 2020, when it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. […]