The regulatory relief comes at a time when the governor has declined to reinstate some of the mitigation efforts – like business and school closings, limits on public gatherings, restrictions on hours of operation – intended to slow the spread of the virus.
It’s not that health care facilities lack PPE or other necessary supplies to care for patients. They lack enough staff with the training to care for critically ill patients.
After months of decline following the winter spike, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are once again rising in Iowa and many other areas of the country. Both measures are higher than they have been since January, which was the tail end of the pandemic’s worst and deadliest stretch so far.
One of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans went into effect in Texas on Wednesday. Abortion advocates in Iowa say this law, as well as an upcoming Supreme Court case, could inspire further abortion restrictions in Iowa in the near future.
Dr. Lynette Iles, a 57-year-old physician from Washington County who has practiced family medicine in Iowa for decades, agreed to surrender her license earlier this month after the Iowa Board of Medicine accused her of incompetence.
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A new $230 million University of Iowa Health Care facility will be built in North Liberty after a state council Tuesday reversed a prior decision, approving the project to proceed.
Amended suit asks the court to declare that a new state law violates equal protection and due process rights guaranteed in the federal and state constitutions.
Arguing no one disputes how University of Iowa Health Care for years paid employees overtime and for working extra shifts, the thousands of past and present workers suing UIHC’s governing Board of Regents recently asked a federal judge to decide the case without further delay via “summary judgment.”
The Education Department announced Monday that it’s investigating five Republican-led states - Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah - that have banned mask requirements in schools, saying the policies could amount to discrimination against students with disabilities or health conditions.
The Linn County board of health urges the Cedar Rapids school board to defy the law and mandate mask-wearing in schools for all students, teachers and staff
Under a state law, municipalities may not require the “owner of real property to implement a policy relating to the use of facial coverings that is more stringent than a policy imposed by the state.” However, the Iowa City order does not require business owners to adopt a mask mandate -- instead shifting the responsibility directly onto individuals.
The blood services provider ImpactLife will require all employees in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 1. Religious and medical exemptions will be considered, officials say.
As new coronavirus cases surge, local public health agencies are working to ramp up their contact tracing efforts. But officials say those efforts have already been strained in recent weeks as the delta variant drives an alarming spike in infections.
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