Sen. Joni Ernst privately apologized to members of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS) for her suggestion that doctors are faking COVID-19 deaths to make money, but declined to say if she’d issue a public statement withdrawing her suggestion, Iowa Starting Line reported. Ernst made her remarks about doctors falsely attributing deaths to COVID-19 during an […]
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Iowa Republican leaders join President Trump in trying to pressure the Big 10 into resuming fall football season
The Republican leaders of the Iowa Legislature sent a letter to Big 10 Commissioner Kevin Warren, asking him to restore the conference’s fall football system, which was canceled due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19. “Just last month, under your leadership, the Big Ten released updated and enhanced testing, quarantine and isolation policies,” Speaker […]
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Joni Ernst suggests doctors are faking COVID-19 deaths to make money
Sen. Joni Ernst told supporters in Black Hawk County on Monday she thinks the country’s COVID-19 death count is being inflated by unscrupulous doctors who have a financial motive to lie about patients dying from the virus. “These healthcare providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if COVID is tied to it, so […]
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Gov. Reynolds tells two very different stories about derecho relief to Iowans, the RNC on Tuesday
Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Tuesday night speech to the Republican National Convention may have surprised anyone who listened to her news conference in Cedar Rapids earlier on Tuesday. During the news conference, Reynolds said she believes not all the federal aid she asked for to help Iowans recover from the Aug. 10 derecho will be approved. […]
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Gov. Reynolds will speak to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday
Gov. Kim Reynolds will be a featured speaker at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night. The governor has not indicated what she will be talking about, but all the convention speakers are expected to use their time to praise President Trump. Each night of the RNC is themed, and Tuesday’s theme is “Land of […]
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President Trump approves federal aid for Linn County, but 26 other counties are still under review
On Thursday night, Gov. Kim Reynolds’ office announced President Trump had partially approved her request for federal aid for individuals and businesses affected by the Aug. 10 derecho. On Monday, the president approved the Public Assistance part of Reynolds’ major disaster declaration request. FEMA Public Assistance provides federal aid for the repair of public infrastructure […]
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President Trump stops briefly in Iowa to discuss derecho damage and recovery
“This has been a very loving area for me,” President Donald Trump said about Cedar Rapids on Tuesday. The president stopped at the Eastern Iowa Airport for 70 minutes on Tuesday morning, while he was traveling across the country on Air Force One to hold a campaign rally in Yuma, Arizona. During her press conference […]
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President Trump approved only a small percentage of the federal aid requested for Iowa
On Monday morning, President Donald Trump told reporters he had approved the request for a major disaster declaration submitted at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday by Gov. Kim Reynolds. “I’ve just approved an emergency declaration for Iowa who had an incredible windstorm,” he said, just before leaving the White House on a campaign trip to Minnesota […]
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‘Vote by mail is tanked’: Under Trump’s new postmaster general, medications, worker safety and democracy are lost in the mail
The Wisconsin primary on April 7 was the first in the United States after the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the nation, leading to business and school shutdowns as people adjusted to limit in-person encounters to slow the spread of the virus. Requests for absentee ballots, also known as mail-in ballots, shot up to 1.3 million, […]
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President Trump said he approved federal disaster aid for Iowa
Update: During her Monday afternoon news conference, Gov. Reynolds said President Trump will visit Iowa on Tuesday. President Trump said on Monday morning he’d approved a federal major disaster declaration for Iowa counties affected by the derecho that struck the state one week ago. “I’ve just approved an emergency declaration for Iowa who had an […]
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Reynolds responds to Trump’s plan to end the National Guard’s pandemic work, while Iowa’s updated COVID-19 site reports questionable data
The changes to the Iowa Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 information site announced on Monday are now complete. New graphs and charts have been added, and according to the department, case numbers are now being updated in real time, instead of once a day. Introducing the revamped site at her press conference on Tuesday, Gov. […]
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Reynolds: ‘We never guaranteed that no one would get COVID-19’
As more COVID-19 restrictions were lifted across the state on Friday, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported another 18 Iowans have died from the virus. Over the last seven days, there have been a total of 93 COVID-19 deaths. That’s the highest numbers of deaths from the virus during any such period. Deaths, of […]
