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It took a while for COVID-19 to hit rural Iowa. Now, the pandemic is hitting the state’s rural communities hard in many ways. As the pandemic drags on and gets worse, so may the strain of living under these unusual circumstances.
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Rural communities that have not yet seen coronavirus outbreaks could be very susceptible to one. That’s according to Iowa State University sociologist…
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Meatpacking plants continue to be a driving factor in coronavirus outbreaks across rural America. In Iowa, refugees from Myanmar are among the…
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Iowa hospitals could lose $1.4 billion in revenue between March and September due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report commissioned by the Iowa…
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For years, refugees who have survived political persecution, hunger and war in Latin America, Southeast Asia and East and Central Africa have come to Iowa…
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Most of Iowa’s counties now have at least one confirmed case of COVID-19, and in many of the state’s rural counties, there’s just a handful of cases. But…