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5 more deaths, 284 more cases of COVID-19

With C-SPAN video clip of Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks speaking about masks on the U.S. House floor

In light of new CDC guidelines, Iowa City and Coralville lifted their mask mandates Tuesday.

The state’s seven-day average is lowest since April 2020

Tickets went on sale at noon today at IHSAA website

In an email to families Tuesday, Superintendent Noreen Bush said With only 13 days left of school, the district is choosing to maintain its mask policy through the end of the school year.

Cedar Rapids minor-league baseball club asks non-vaccinated fans to wear masks

Iowa added 86 new COVID-19 cases Monday, bringing the total number of individuals in the state who have tested positive for the virus to 369,411, according to Iowa Department of Public Health data. No new confirmed deaths were reported Monday.

After the state public health department issued new guidance late last week, local school districts are discussing revisions to their mask mandates just weeks before reaching the end of the school year.

U.S. Rep Mariannette Miller-Meeks has visited vaccination sites in all 24 counties in the 2nd District, and she has stuck patients’ arms herself in most of the counties she represents.

Nearly half of the people living in Linn and Johnson counties have been fully vaccinated.

Following FDA approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 12 to 15 year olds, the Cedar Rapids high schools are offering vaccine clinics to all students Friday.

None of the University of Iowa’s contracted football coaches — including head coach Kirk Ferentz — participated in voluntary salary reductions that UI Athletics announced last summer in light of massive COVID-compelled losses that officials cited weeks later in justifying their decision to cut four UI sports.

Company was among manufacturers to host vaccination clinics for employees

University of Iowa Health Care on Thursday officially expanded its COVID-vaccination effort to the newly-approved tweens and early teens, administering first shots to the 12-15 age group at a clinic in its Iowa River Landing location.