Starting Friday, Iowans can obtain at-home COVID-19 testing kits at no cost. Participants will collect their own saliva and mail samples directly to the State Hygienic Lab for results.
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Delta, the highly transmissible variant of the novel coronavirus, has become the dominant strain both in Iowa and across the nation. Public health experts say Iowans should assume the variant is circulating throughout their community.
Staff at MercyOne facilities across Iowa are required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine by this fall, diverging from other local hospitals when it comes to mandating shots for employees.
Most of the pandemic rental aid OK’d by Congress is unspent, federal data show.
The total number of people in Iowa who have tested positive for the virus is 374,253, according to state data.
Linn and Johnson counties did not add COVID-19 cases in a 24-hour period ending Monday at 11 a.m.
Iowa had 61 new COVID-19 cases, but no new deaths from the disease in the 24-hour period ending at noon Sunday, according to state public health data analyzed by The Gazette.
Iowa on Friday reported 96 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of individuals in the state who have tested positive for the virus since the start of the pandemic to 374,038, according to data from the Iowa Department of Public Health. Two new, confirmed deaths were also reported.
Starting immediately, Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids is expanding hospital visiting hours and allowing more visitors per patient as COVID-19 cases continue to decrease.
Enrollment at Iowa’s public universities is down this summer after a pandemic-plagued fall and spring — dragging Iowa State’s numbers to their lowest level in at least a decade and resurrecting 90s-era University of Iowa summer counts.
The state added 119 new virus cases and two new, confirmed deaths on Thursday
During her yearlong $439,000 “special assistant” to the president assignment that ended Wednesday, former University of Iowa Provost Montse Fuentes was charged with assessing the impact of COVID-19 across higher education and reporting best practices for navigating the pandemic.
Linn County’s seven-day average of new cases at lowest point since June 17, 2020.
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