More than 50 Iowa nursing homes have experienced a COVID-19 outbreak since the vaccine rollout in December, and the home with the highest number of outbreaks is run by the state itself. The Iowa Veterans Home has experienced five outbreaks over the course of the pandemic, more than any other ...

More than 33,000 employed UnityPoint Health team members, whether they provide direct care to patients or not, will need to be fully vaccinated by Nov. 1 this year. “We remain incredibly grateful to our health care providers, who have seen the devastation of COVID-19 up close and personal ...

DES MOINES — Worried parents with children too young to be vaccinated called on the the Iowa State Board of Education on Thursday to implore Gov. Kim Reynolds to reverse a state law that bans school mask mandates. The parents and some teachers sought to change the ban on mask mandates ...

DES MOINES — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has no plans to offer $100 incentives to Iowans to get the coronavirus vaccine after President Joe Biden pleaded with states and local governments to use federal funds to entice people to stop the rapid spread of a virus variant, an aide said ...

The Iowa Department of Public Health, already fighting formal complaints claiming it has repeatedly violated Iowa’s Open Records Law, is now being sued over access to records related to a $26 million no-bid contract. Suzette Rasmussen, a lawyer from Draper, Utah, is suing the Iowa ...

Iowa’s daily COVID-19 cases have spiked nearly 250 percent in the past two weeks, but remain at levels similar to the beginning of the pandemic early last year, the New York Times reported. There are signs of trouble in the latest rise in Iowa cases, as the more contagious delta variant ...