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COVID-19

Iowa COVID-19 cases hold steady; hospitalizations rise

State health officials reported 900 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Wednesday for the past week — a slight decrease from the previous week’s numbers — but hospitalizations doubled. There were 68 people infected by the coronavirus receiving inpatient treatment at Iowa hospitals that day, ...

Auditor: Iowa Gov. Reynolds must return $450K in COVID funds

DES MOINES — Iowa’s state auditor has again called for Gov. Kim Reynolds to return nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds that were used to pay for 21 governor’s office staff members for three months in 2020. Auditor Rob Sand, a Democrat, released a report Tuesday that ...

Iowa surpasses 9,000 COVID-19 deaths

More than 9,000 people in Iowa have died after being infected by the coronavirus, according to Iowa Department of Public Health data. The state surpassed that mark when it reported 137 new deaths associated with COVID-19 on Wednesday. The death toll now stands at 9,085. Death reports are ...

Marshall County COVID numbers continue to drop as reporting changes

As the reporting mechanism for COVID-19 in Iowa has moved from a separate coronavirus website into the Iowa Department of Public Health’s (IDPH’s) site, case numbers both in Marshall County and across the state continue to drop substantially. According to Marshall County Public Health, ...

State discovers COVID glitch: 6,700 unreported COVID tests

State health officials have discovered about 6,700 previously unreported positive COVID-19 tests that date to the beginning of the pandemic nearly two years ago. The error was found as the state decommissioned its website dedicated to COVID-19 statistics on Wednesday and scaled back reports ...

MCSD COVID update

As of noon on Feb. 11, 2022, there have been 26 cases of COVID-19 confirmed among MCSD students and/or employees this week — 18 among students and eight among staff. The next report will be shared on Feb. 18, 2022, and more information is available at ...