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Roughly two out of five COVID-19 deaths in Iowa were preventable, former UI Public Health dean postulates

The Iowa Department of Public Health reported another 117 deaths from COVID-19 in its weekly update on Wednesday, increasing the state’s pandemic death toll to 6,965. The number of deaths from the virus reported by IDPH has increased in every […]

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Requiring Iowans to wear face masks in public could greatly decrease COVID-19 infections and deaths, according to new UI research

The likely number of cases of COVID-19 and deaths due to the virus could be decreased by thousands in the next few months if Iowans were required to wear personal protective equipment in public, even if social distancing is relaxed, […]

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Gov. Reynolds dismissed another warning from UI researchers before relaxing COVID-19 restrictions statewide

In a report to the Iowa Department of Public Health dated May 4, a team of researchers from the University of Iowa College of Public Health said there was “strong evidence” the COVID-19 restrictions in place prior to May 1 […]

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Dismissing UI research models, Gov. Reynolds says statewide mandates ‘punish’ counties with no COVID-19 spikes

“It’s not sustainable for us to continue to lock the state down,” Gov. Kim Reynolds said at her press conference on Wednesday. “We need to start to open it up in a responsible manner in areas that we feel are […]

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‘We’ve been very transparent’ about COVID-19 in Iowa, Reynolds claims, but data is still elusive

Six days after signing a contract with the University of Iowa College of Public Health to have its experts create models of the spread and severity of COVID-19 in the state, the Iowa Department of Public Health still hasn’t provided […]

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Iowa is now working to predict the spread of COVID-19, but state officials will control what information the public sees

A month after the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the state, the Iowa Department of Public Health agreed to provide the University of Iowa College of Public Health with the data necessary to develop models to predict the […]

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