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COVID-19

Johnson & Johnson vaccine arrives at JBS

Gov. Kim Reynolds announced 25,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be distributed Wednesday and Thursday to 51 companies, and JBS in Marshalltown is included. In fact, after the 11 a.m. press conference the governor held. Marshall County Public Health Nurse Pat Thompson said ...

Gov. Reynolds gets vaccinated and encourages others to do so

JOHNSTON — Gov. Kim Reynolds received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine during her weekly news conference Wednesday to encourage Iowans to get vaccinated as soon as they can. Reynolds, her husband Kevin Reynolds and Iowa Department of Public Health Administrator ...

Johnson & Johnson vaccine arrives at JBS

Gov. Kim Reynolds announced 25,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be distributed Wednesday and Thursday to 51 companies, and JBS in Marshalltown is included. In fact, after the 11 a.m. press conference the governor held. Marshall County Public Health Nurse Pat Thompson said ...

Biden urges Senate Dems to rally behind $1.9T virus bill

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to rally behind a $1.9 trillion COVID-relief bill and stood by his proposed $1,400 payments to individuals, even as some party moderates sought to dial back parts of the package. “He said we need to pass this bill and ...

More than a third of IVH staff still refuse vaccine

Roughly 37 percent of the staff at the state-run Iowa Veterans Home are refusing to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. That’s a decrease from the 46 percent refusal rate reported several weeks ago, but still leaves dozens of caretakers of Iowa’s elderly veterans unprotected. Laurel ...

Minimum wage hike all but dead in big COVID relief bill

WASHINGTON — Democrats’ hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill seemed all but dead Monday as the Senate prepared to debate its own version of the House-passed aid package. Four days after the chamber’s parliamentarian said Senate rules ...