Coronavirus

The number is a slight increase from last week’s total

“The world has changed a lot in the last two and a half years, and the ways that we're trying to protect health care workers, and society as a whole, are different, too,” said study co-principal investigator Nicholas Mohr, UI professor of emergency medicine, anesthesia and epidemiology.

Cases, hospitalizations and deaths all down fromthe previous week

The state reports Linn County recorded three deaths and 327 new cases of the virus - up from 311 new cases last week. Johnson County also saw an uptick in cases - 207 over the last week, compared with 165 the previous week.

Dennis W. Haggerty Jr. of Burr Ridge pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud and money laundering charges for taking more than $2.5 million from hospitals in Chicago and Iowa.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds joined 24 other Republican governors in calling on President Joe Biden to end the federal COVID public health emergency.

Linn County this week reported four new virus deaths

The Pfizer pill that’s prevented many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, has been free, courtesy of the federal government. But the government will stop footing the bill in the coming months, shifting the cost to patients, many of whom are at the highest risk of severe illness.

3,469 cases up 28% from previous week

Linn County also added three coronavirus deaths in the past week

One of the former supervisors filing lawsuits is a Waterloo plant manager accused of arranging a COVID-19 office pool and encouraging interpreters to mislead workers about the coronavirus pandemic.

What does information technology in schools look like today more than two years into the pandemic?

Iowa reported the highest weekly case total in two months, and hospitalizations across the state are up 26 percent from last week.

When Christina Anderson's mother started having chest pains in October, they rushed to the nearest emergency room in their hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa. Because of her mother's ovarian cancer diagnosis, Anderson assumed they would be seen within a reasonable time. Instead, their trip became a nine-hour odyssey.

The athletic departments across Iowa’s public universities have spent more than a combined $7.3 million taking COVID-19 tests and other pandemic-related precautions and measures – expenses covered by their main campuses, athletics revenue or federal aid.