The Marshalltown Community School District confirmed three new cases of COVID-19 among students and employees on Friday: • Total cases among students: two • Total cases among staff: one Compared to previous weekly COVID reports, the amount of cases in the school district has been ...
The halls of the Marshalltown Community School District middle schools and high schools are full once again, with students nearly two weeks into their return to the total in-person learning option. “I just smiled when I walked into the band room and the whole band was playing music ...
JOHNSTON — Gov. Kim Reynolds said Thursday that she’s optimistic vaccinations of Iowans will accelerate due to the impending authorization of a new one-dose coronavirus vaccine and increased deliveries of the two-shot varieties. Speaking at her weekly news conference, Reynolds said 19.2 percent of eligible Iowans have received at least one dose of a vaccine, and nearly 53 percent of residents 65 and older have had a first dose. Reynolds credited the federal government for increasing the production and delivery of vaccines to states. “I’m cautiously optimistic that the progress ...
Iowa is continuing to accelerate the process of administering the COVID-19 vaccine, but it still is playing catch-up to other states. When it comes to the percentage of a state’s population that has received two shots of the vaccine, Iowa ranks near the bottom, at 4.8 percent. Among the ...
The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus, and then it went over. A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was 500,513 — roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta. The figure compiled by Johns Hopkins University surpasses the number of people who died in 2019 of chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s, flu and pneumonia combined. “It’s nothing like we have ever been through in the last 102 years, since the 1918 influenza pandemic,” Dr. ...
WASHINGTON — It sounded so ambitious at first blush: 100 million vaccination shots in 100 days. Now, one month into his presidency, Joe Biden is on a glide path to attain that goal and pitching well beyond it to the far more ambitious and daunting mission of vaccinating all eligible ...
