Articles Tagged: Pandemic

Reduced service industry pool threatens to hold back local businesses as they try to recover from pandemic losses.

Iowa added 100 new COVID-19 cases Monday, bringing the number of people in the state who have tested positive for …

Second long-term care facility added to state’s outbreak list

Iowa on Wednesday added 138 new COVID-19 cases and two new, confirmed deaths. The new numbers bring the state’s to …

Students, band directors explore new ways to connect through music

503 new COVID-19 cases reported Wednesday

The rate of young Iowans receiving the HPV vaccine increased in 2019, but the rate of those adolescents returning for the second shot in the two-dose series declined from previous years, according to a new report. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

The number of opioid-related deaths in Iowa increased 35 percent in 2020, to 212. Federal and state public health officials say factors of the pandemic — including isolation and delays in accessing health care — may have accelerated the already increasing rate of opioid deaths.

Iowa added 182 COVID-19 cases for the 24-hour period ending at 11 a.m. Monday, bringing the total number of cases …

More than 900,000 Iowans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Friday afternoon. The Iowa Department of Public Health …

Forty-three counties in Iowa declined their allotment of the COVID-19 vaccine from the state for this week, saying the demand for the shot wasn’t there among their residents. Now, these public health departments are working to encourage residents to take the shot -- particularly among those who are still hesitant about the vaccine.

Iowa added 631 new COVID-19 cases and six new, confirmed deaths Wednesday. The new numbers bring the state’s case total …

Iowa business leaders have been taking different approaches to incentivize COVID-19 vaccinations.

Over the past several weeks as COVID-19 vaccines have become available to all Iowans, some have struggled to find an appointment to get immunized. So some have made it their mission to make sure everyone who wants a vaccine gets one.

More than 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Iowa since December, according to the Iowa Department of …