Another week brought another new record for COVID cases in Marshall County, with a whopping 565 of them confirmed in the last seven days as the Omicron variant continues to spread across the state and the globe. By comparison, six months ago in July of 2021, there were just 731 new cases in ...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially go online. The website, COVIDTests.gov, now includes a link for Americans to access an order form run by the ...
With 92 confirmed COVID-19 cases reported among students and employees at Marshalltown schools, the district hit another record high in back-to-back weeks. On Friday, the Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD) reported 78 student cases and 14 employee cases. Last week, the district reported 55 new cases with 42 among students and 13 among employees, which was the highest number of confirmed cases since September 2021. The case count at that time was 42. The district began issuing weekly reports about COVID-19 cases in the fall of 2020 to meet a crucial need to “keep our ...
TAMA — Leaders at the Meskwaki Settlement School met Wednesday morning and opted to switch to virtual instruction beginning on Thursday and continuing through the upcoming week due to increasing COVID-19 infections among the student body. In a Facebook post Wednesday, Superintendent Steve ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a blow to the Biden administration’s fight against the pandemic, blocking a federal mandate that workers be vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 — though the court allowed a separate rule requiring vaccinations for some health care ...
Marshall County recorded its highest number of new COVID-19 cases in a single week since the beginning of the pandemic, with a grand total of 536. According to Marshall County Public Health, the surge in new cases equates to 76.6 per day, surpassing the previous high daily average of 58 in ...
