Marshall County Public Health Director Pat Thompson is urging all adults who have contact with children to get vaccinated. “Our little kids can’t get vaccinated until they’re 12 years old,” she said. “One thing that would help would be if all adults that are around children would get ...

DES MOINES — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds lashed out at President Joe Biden Thursday after he ordered his education secretary to explore possible legal action against states including Iowa that have blocked school mask mandates and other public health measures meant to protect students against ...

DES MOINES — Nestled between corn dog stands, animal barns and booths touting hot tubs and John Deere tractors, a Hy-Vee pharmacist and several nurses have been administering COVID-19 vaccines at the Iowa State Fair to anyone eligible that wants one. Their booth didn’t have the long lines ...

With COVID-19 cases rising in the United States, communities are making recommendations to keep numbers low. At the forefront of these recommendations by some community members, is getting vaccinated. “The best advice I should have started with is if you have not been vaccinated, by God go ...

Iowa’s seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases is 16 times higher than it was four weeks ago, showing the largest rate of increase since the peak of the pandemic last November. Although the actual number of new infections reported on Aug. 10 is, at 1,559, relatively small compared to the ...

DES MOINES — Iowa has tossed out tens of thousands of expired COVID-19 vaccine doses and could toss out hundreds of thousands more if demand for the vaccine continues to lag in the state, health officials there said. Iowa Department of Public Health spokeswoman Sarah Ekstrand said Monday ...