The Iowa Supreme Court will allow families of four Tyson Waterloo plant workers who died of COVID in 2020 to go forward with negligence suits against executives and supervisiors, but not against the company.
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The U.S. faces a crucial shortage of medical providers, especially in rural areas. The problem has been building for a while, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated it by pushing many doctors over the edge into early retirement or other fields.
COVID has become similar to influenza — an endemic disease — in terms of the risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death, experts said. The coronavirus, which causes COVID, is now less deadly, though it is more transmissible and is expected to continue experiencing waves, some of which could be severe.
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Mike Barnhart, the outgoing chief executive officer of Horizons Family Services, had come to Cedar Rapids in the throes of severe drug addiction to pursue sobriety in earnest.
State and federal data show increases in hospital visits, positive test rates, viral activity in wastewater, and transmission rate
Using a student-teacher model for therapists in training, the grant-funded Telepsychology Training Clinic at the University of Iowa has offered free, short-term counseling to more than 200 Iowans in 17 counties.
University of Iowa Health Care will pay $1.2 million to the parents of a 17-year-old Iowa City High School senior who died unexpectedly in July 2020 after several UIHC providers mistook her symptoms of a developing pulmonary embolism as COVID.
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a class-action lawsuit over Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ decision to end pandemic-related unemployment benefits early.
After suffering from side effects allegedly caused by the vaccine – including fatigue, facial drooping, loss of balance, and weakness or numbness throughout his body — Larry Driscoll filed a workers’ compensation claim, arguing his issues stemmed from his work for the city.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services documents high COVID-19 activity and moderate influenza activity.
The number of Iowans who have up-to-date COVID-19 vaccinations has plummeted in recent months, just as the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services reports spread of the disease is “very high”.
A spike in hospital admissions for the virus came after Thanksgiving.
The State of Iowa has received more than $11 billion in federal pandemic relief funding. Where has that money been spent, and how much remains unspent?
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds said she will not reinstate COVID-19 restrictions as hospitalizations across the state increase.
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