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Face masks now are optional in all University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics facilities, including Iowa River Landing and QuickCare clinics, except for people who have symptoms of a respiratory virus or unvaccinated employees.
Face masks now are optional in all University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics facilities, including Iowa River Landing and QuickCare clinics, except for people who have symptoms of a respiratory virus or unvaccinated employees.
A quilt made of cloth masks is the centerpiece of the Red Thread Project, commemorating the third anniversary of COVID’s arrival in Linn County.
I was ordered to leave the building and escorted out by Coralville police.
At-home tests, which aren’t required to be reported, have grown in popularity — and have made the state’s weekly COVID-19 data reporting “less meaningful,” according to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Iowa was down over the last week, but hospitalizations were up again, by more than 17 percent, according to data published by the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services.
The head of Iowa's Department of Education is stepping down next month to pursue other opportunities, the Iowa Governor’s Office announced Friday.
The state ended its five-week decline in hospitalization numbers this week, with a 10 percent increase in the number of people who are hospitalized with the disease.
Staffing cuts, larger class sizes and delaying purchase of new curriculum planned as school districts use the last of their emergency funding.
A four-week trend of declining COVID-19 cases in Iowa ended this week when state’s department of health and human services reported a slight uptick in infections.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Iowa fell by 4.5 percent over the last week, while deaths from the disease increased by 10 percent.
Of the 30 new deaths reported, two were in Johnson County
Although just 39 percent of Americans 65 and older have had both the initial COVID vaccine series plus an updated bivalent booster against the omicron strain, new University of Iowa-involved research shows “significant protection” from that bivalent shot among those older adults.
45 deaths from COVID-19 reported in the past week, including three in Linn County
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