Today, Tyson Foods announced the closure of its Waterloo plant. Local officials in Black Hawk County have been calling for this for weeks as plant workers continued to test positive for COVID-19 and the overall number of positive cases in the county has...
With another spike in local cases today, the Black Hawk County Board of Health voted on a proclamation urging Gov. Kim Reynolds and Tyson to temporarily close the plant. This morning, the state reported 107 new cases in Black Hawk County for a total of 366. The...
Specific numbers have now come out about the extent of coronavirus cases out of the National Beef meat processing facility in Tama. The Iowa Department of Public Health reported Sunday that additional surveillance testing had been done at the Tama plant and the...
UPDATE: On April 21, the model moved Iowa's peak forward one day to May 7, and estimates that peak to be 11 deaths per day. Despite early projections, Iowa’s expected peak for coronavirus deaths per day has now moved back into May. The University of Washington’s...
Coronavirus doesn’t respect borders, and that could soon become a problem for Western Iowa. Right now, Iowa’s main coronavirus hot spots are on the eastern side of the state. There the population is highest and has more virus epicenters — meatpacking plants and...
Coronavirus doesn’t respect borders, and that could soon become a problem for Western Iowa. Right now, Iowa’s main coronavirus hot spots are on the eastern side of the state. There the population is highest and has more virus epicenters — meatpacking plants and...
Coronavirus doesn’t respect borders, and that could soon become a problem for Western Iowa. Right now, Iowa’s main coronavirus hot spots are on the eastern side of the state. There the population is highest and has more virus epicenters — meatpacking plants and...
As the number of Iowa's positive COVID-19 cases spiked over the weekend, Gov. Kim Reynolds said meatpacking plants in the state need to stay open for the sake of the food supply. At her Monday press conference, Reynolds said, “These also are essential businesses...
As the number of Iowa's positive COVID-19 cases spiked over the weekend, Gov. Kim Reynolds said meatpacking plants in the state need to stay open for the sake of the food supply. At her Monday press conference, Reynolds said, “These also are essential businesses...
As meat packing plants across Iowa experience outbreaks of the coroanvirus, local officials have stepped up to demand more while Gov. Kim Reynolds has largely communicated with business leaders. At a coronavirus briefing in Black Hawk County on Friday, Waterloo...
