Community members in Perry are adjusting to a new normal nearly a month after 730 employees at their local Tyson plant tested positive for COVID-19. Appointments are required at the local barbershop, garages aren’t being used for 3D printing face shields anymore...
Iowa’s neighbors to the west are urging Nebraska meatpacking plants to be more transparent with positive COVID-19 cases and for better treatment to workers that are deemed essential. The fight has implications for Iowa; a massive outbreak at the Dakota City,...
Education is coming to life in the form of COVID-19 for one Iowa nursing student. Knowing she was already saddled with a compromised immune system, after a cough turned into a fever last month she feared the worst. On April 18 she was tested for COVID-19 and on...
Whether it's advocating for essential workers, breaking news or general updates, the combination of tight-lipped meatpacking companies and public health departments are forcing community members in Perry and Waterloo to find answers to their questions on newly...
Whether it's advocating for essential workers, breaking news or general updates, the combination of tight-lipped meatpacking companies and public health departments are forcing community members in Perry and Waterloo to find answers to their questions on newly...
Whether it's advocating for essential workers, breaking news or general updates, the combination of tight-lipped meatpacking companies and public health departments are forcing community members in Perry and Waterloo to find answers to their questions on newly...
The human element is getting lost among the testing and unemployment data of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Zarate and her family are getting the full experience. Zarate is a senior at Perry High School with parents recovering from COVID-19. Her father is almost 60...
Instead of spending the month of May finalizing exhibitors and event schedules, county fair organizers are making decisions about whether to punt their 2020 fair to 2021. Last week, the Wapello County Fair Board in southeast Iowa announced it will be postponing its...
Answers are creating more questions for the Perry community. Data released on Tuesday by the Iowa Department of Public Health confirmed 730 positive COVID-19 tests at the local Tyson meatpacking plant, 58 percent of the tested employees. The news of the positive...
More than 700 workers at the Tyson meatpacking plant in Perry have tested positive for COVID-19, according to data released today by the Iowa Department of Public Health. During Gov. Kim Reynolds' daily press conference, the state released testing data for five...
