Articles Tagged: Diseases

8:20 a.m.: C.R. Parks & Rec announces changes for May CEDAR RAPIDS – Due to the COVID-19 virus, the Cedar …

JOHNSTON – Gov. Kim Reynolds launched an aggressive public-private partnership Tuesday designed to ramp up the number of coronavirus tests …

UnityPoint Health has announced reduction in staff hours and furloughs, as well as pay cuts for its executive staff, starting …

2:02 p.m. Board of Pharmacy Provides Its Rules For Distribution Of COVID-19 Testing Kits The Iowa Board of Pharmacy said …

JOHNSTON – Despite employees’ fears of scant worker protections and calls from local health officials and advocacy groups to temporarily …

CEDAR RAPIDS – A deputy sheriff who was assigned to the Linn County Correctional Center tested positive for the coronavirus, …

Iowa’s iconic midsummer bicycle ride known as RAGBRAI has been called off for 2020, the latest blow to normalcy from …

An Iowa beef processing plant that was idled after a coronavirus outbreak resumed production Monday, one day after the state …

1:56 p.m. Iowa City Pride announces parade and festival are canceled IOWA CITY – After weeks of monitoring and evaluating …

When parents of Chinese students studying at the University of Iowa heard about shortages in the United States of personal …

Joey Pagliai delivers pizzas most nights along with his servers, who no longer have customers to wait on in the …

At a time when fundraisers would be springing up indoors and out, several area nonprofits are planting the seeds to …

How does social distancing and self-isolation work when dozens of households share the same front door? ‘You can’t force people …

Propelled by urgent rounds of testing at Iowa meatpacking plants where the coronavirus has taken hold, the state Sunday reported …

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Southern African concept of ‘ubuntu” lately. I spent a couple of years living …