As with many other school districts around the state, the Marshalltown Community School District is seeing higher COVID-19 case counts so far this school year compared to last year. Last week, the Marshalltown Community School District reported its highest new case count since the COVID-19 ...
MINNEAPOLIS — The United States reached its latest heartbreaking pandemic milestone Friday, eclipsing 700,000 deaths from COVID-19 just as the surge from the delta variant is starting to slow down and give overwhelmed hospitals some relief. It took 3 ½ months for the U.S. to go from 600,000 to 700,000 deaths, driven by the variant’s rampant spread through unvaccinated Americans. The death toll is larger than the population of Boston. This milestone is especially frustrating to public health leaders and medical professionals on the front lines because vaccines have been available ...
After not recording a COVID related death since the spring, Marshall County reported a new death for the third consecutive week. Among the 6,563 deaths across the state, 82 were reported in Marshall County. The state has also exceeded 10,000 new cases each of the last three weeks, according ...
DES MOINES — The rise of the delta variant and beginning of the school year have dramatically increased the risks children face during the coronavirus pandemic, a group of pediatricians said in court documents submitted in the federal lawsuit against Gov. Kim Reynolds. The American Academy of Pediatrics and its Iowa chapter filed a brief Tuesday with the federal court judge who is considering the lawsuit 11 parents of Iowa children and the disability rights group The Arc of Iowa filed last week. It seeks to strike down a Republican-passed measure that Reynolds signed into law in May ...
Marshall County has reported a COVID-19 related death in two straight weeks for the first time since the spring. Eighty-one people have died in Marshall County with COVID-19 infection, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. The total death toll across the state is 6,482 people, ...
COVID-19 continues to spread in Iowa, with the average number of new infections and hospitalizations reaching their highest level of any time in 2021. Only 13 other states have a higher per capita infection rate, according to the Washington Post. The newspaper’s COVID-19 tracker indicates ...
