public health

A coalition of faculty, staff and students at the University of Iowa is organizing a sickout to call attention to the rapid spread of the coronavirus on campus. Organizers hope to pressure administrators to move to fully online instruction.

Iowa State University announced plans to allow some 25,000 fans to attend the first Cyclone football game of the season in-person. That's despite Ames and Iowa City having more new cases per capita than any other metro areas in the country.

Iowa's three public universities have set aside at least 725 dorm rooms between them for students who test positive for the coronavirus or need to quarantine after being exposed.

As children prepare to go back to school this month, state health officials are reminding parents to make sure they have their state-required vaccinations.

Severe storm systems tore across Iowa on Monday, leveling trees, downing power lines, damaging homes and businesses and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.

The University of Iowa undergraduate and graduate student governments are asking the school to go primarily remote this fall, due to the risk of the coronavirus.

The City of Dubuque has passed its own face covering mandate, under legal guidance from the city attorney that the order is enforceable, despite the governor's opinion that such local measures are moot.

The Johnson County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a mandate on face coverings, which the county attorney has said will be enforceable, unlike a previous resolution.

Mayors in Linn County are joining with the county's board of supervisors and board of health in urging Gov. Kim Reynolds to let them issue local mask mandates.

The Johnson County Board of Health has unanimously approved an ordinance requiring the use of face coverings in public, which the county attorney says will be enforceable once it's approved by the board of supervisors.