There is a shortage of COVID-19 vaccines. Marshall County Public Health Nurse Pat Thompson said next week, the county will only receive 300 doses. The last two weeks, Marshall County received 400 doses in each shipment. Thompson said each county in Iowa is facing a shortage, as are numerous ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered government health insurance markets to reopen for a special sign-up window, offering uninsured Americans a haven as the spread of COVID-19 remains dangerously high and vaccines aren’t yet widely available. Biden signed an executive ...
WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress and the White House rejected a Republican pitch to split President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan into smaller chunks on Thursday, with lawmakers appearing primed to muscle the sweeping economic and virus aid forward without GOP help. Despite Biden’s calls for unity, Democrats said the stubbornly high unemployment numbers and battered U.S. economy leave them unwilling to waste time courting Republican support that might not materialize. They also don’t want to curb the size and scope of a package that they say will provide ...
The Iowa Veterans Home and Accura Healthcare of Marshalltown were listed with COVID-19 outbreaks this week by the Iowa Department of Public Health. IDPH reports five active cases at IVH and Accura has three. IVH Commandant Timon Oujiri said the IDPH number is inaccurate and IVH has seven ...
DES MOINES — A announcement of a second positive case of coronavirus at the Iowa Capitol on Thursday again raised the issue of safety in the building. Iowa House Chief Clerk Meghan Nelson said in a statement to lawmakers that someone associated with the House tested positive on Wednesday. The individual was last in the building on Friday and reported wearing a face covering at all times. It is the second known positive coronavirus case in the building since the beginning of the legislative session more than two weeks ago. Democrats have complained daily that Republican leaders ...
With half the state’s nursing home workers having refused the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Kim Reynolds declined to say Wednesday whether employees at state-run care facilities should be required to get the vaccine. The head of the Iowa Department of Public Health said she wants to make sure state workers caring for elderly and disabled individuals are “comfortable” with the vaccine and capable of making “the decisions that are best for them.” The refusal of health care workers to get the vaccine has led to a stockpile of unused vaccines that the state is now working to reclaim ...
