Marshalltown Community School District officials know COVID-19 is primarily spreading in the community, so having students in classrooms is not only safe for their health but important for their academic growth. While the academics might be struggling, the health of the students and their ...
Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Wednesday she is easing coronavirus mitigation restrictions on restaurants, bars and gatherings as Iowa’s COVID-19 hospitalizations and positive cases drop. Bars and restaurants will no longer have to close at 10 p.m. and can resume their normal hours of ...
IOWA CITY — A panel of experts that will help decide which groups get the coronavirus vaccine first in Iowa has been holding closed meetings, circumventing the state open meetings law. The Iowa Department of Public Health convened the Infectious Disease Advisory Council this month to ...
IOWA CITY — Tyson Foods has fired seven top managers at its largest pork plant after an independent investigation confirmed allegations that they bet on how many workers would test positive for the coronavirus, the company announced Wednesday. The company said the investigation, led by ...
The long-term care facility The Willows in Marshalltown has an outbreak of COVID-19, which began Dec. 8. Cases of COVID-19 are labeled as an outbreak if there are three or more concurrent cases. The majority of the cases at The Willows have few or no symptoms. Executive Director Jennifer Stanley said the facility has a comprehensive plan in place for handling COVID cases, and an aggressive approach to mitigating risk. “From the early days of the pandemic, our focus in the beginning was on keeping the virus out of our community,” she said. “More than two weeks before the ...
After a punishing fall that left hospitals struggling, some Midwestern states are seeing a decline in new coronavirus cases. But the signs of improvement are offset by the infection’s accelerating spread on both coasts. States including Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Nebraska have seen decreases in the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 over the past couple of weeks. All, however, are still experiencing an alarming number of deaths and hospitalizations because of the earlier surge of cases. With winter weather driving people indoors, where the virus spreads more ...
