Effective Friday, the Linn County Public Health department will no longer conduct COVID-19 contact tracing efforts for county residents. The county agency is following its cue from the state, which ended statewide virus surveillance this past August.
Eric Bradley, an environmental health manager at Scott County Public Health, will take on a new role at Linn County Public Health as the deputy director later this month.
Linn County Public Health has been awarded a $1.25 million five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address violence impacting adolescents and teens in the community.
Parents frustrated that they don’t know whether their child is considered a close contact with someone who tested positive, and how to continue learning when in quarantine.
Wear a mask in schools, remain home when sick or if in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, and get tested.
Cedar Rapids schools to begin contact tracing and students or staff members with COVID-19 symptoms or a positive test are required to isolate for 10 days.
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
Local health care and public health officials are urging all Linn County residents to get vaccinated and take other mitigation measures as new coronavirus cases surge in recent weeks. Cedar Rapids hospitals say they are seeing an alarming increase in hospitalizations, including among fully vaccinated residents.
245 individuals received the COVID-19 vaccine during walk-in vaccine clinics offered by Linn County Public Health and the Cedar Rapids Community School District. The clinics marked the first major incentive program for the vaccine locally.
Linn County Public Health and a local collaborative, called Together! Healthy Linn, are conducting a public survey to assess community health needs ahead of the development of their Community Health Improvement Plan next year.
Each participant who receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a walk-in clinic happening in Cedar Rapids this week will recieve a $50 Walmart gift card.
Forty Iowans, including some Cedar Rapidians, are receiving the rabies vaccine regimen after a wild bat was spotted during an overnight campout at the zoo in Omaha.
All people who live in, are employed in, go to school in, or visit Linn County are invited to complete a community health survey that help gain insight on issues impacting the Linn County community’s health and well-being.
Linn County’s Public Health Director says the state needs to strengthen local public health infrastructure.
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