OMAHA, Neb. — At least 59,000 meatpacking workers caught COVID-19 and 269 workers died when the virus tore through the industry last year, which is significantly more than previously thought, according to a new U.S. House report released Wednesday. The meatpacking industry was one of the ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Meatpacking giant Tyson Foods says more than 96 percent of its workers have been vaccinated ahead of the company’s Nov. 1 deadline for them to do so. The company based in Springdale, Arkansas, said the number of its 120,000 workers who have been vaccinated has nearly ...

On the eighth floor of Iowa Methodist Hospital in downtown Des Moines, 56-year-old Russell Braley watched daytime TV in one of the recovery units, breathing through a tube running from his nose to an oxygen unit. “I’ve been in motorcycle wrecks. I’ve almost died several times in my ...

The Marshalltown Community School District recently released its latest COVID report, and as of 12 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021, there have been 14 cases confirmed at MCSD in the last week— 13 among students and one among staff. A new report is issued each week, and it focuses exclusively on ...

At least 307 residents and workers in Iowa nursing homes have been infected with COVID-19 as a result of current, ongoing outbreaks in 25 different care facilities. That’s a 9 percent decrease in infections from two weeks ago, when there were 333 infections tied to 32 active nursing home ...

Iowa has recorded another 100 new deaths related to COVID-19 in the last week, including one in Marshall County. The county has reported 85 deaths since the start of the pandemic with at least one new death per week for more than a month, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. In ...