Nikoel Hytrek is Iowa Starting Line’s longest-serving reporter. She covers LGBTQ issues, abortion rights and all topics of interest to Iowans. Her biggest goal is to help connect the dots between policy and people’s real lives. If you have story ideas or tips, send them over to nikoel@new.iowastartingline.com.
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Public Finally Learns Extent Of Tama Plant Outbreak
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 Tyson facility in Columbus Junction. Each had over 500 tests. Results showed…
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Modeling Pushes Iowa’s Curve Back
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 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has been…
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Virus Outbreak Concerns Rise In, Around Sioux City
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 long-term care facilities. The western half of the state has been spared…
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Virus Outbreak Concerns Rise In, Around Sioux City
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 long-term care facilities. The western half of the state has been spared…
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Virus Outbreak Concerns Rise In, Around Sioux City
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 long-term care facilities. The western half of the state has been spared…
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Reynolds: Meatpacking Plants Must Stay Open
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 and an essential workforce, and without them people’s lives and our…
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Reynolds: Meatpacking Plants Must Stay Open
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 and an essential workforce, and without them people’s lives and our…
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Local Officials Listen to Workers, Governor to 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 Mayor Quentin Hart emphasized the importance of public safety and the well-being of workers while…
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Iowa Cases Spike By 389 With More Packing Plant Worker Tests
On Sunday, the Iowa Department of Health put out new numbers showing Iowa’s biggest single-day spike in coronavirus cases yet. Iowa’s number of positive cases of COVID-19 is now 2,902, marking an increase of 389 from the reported totals from Saturday to Sunday. According to a press release put out by the IDPH, “261 or…
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Iowa Cases Spike By 389 With More Packing Plant Worker Tests
On Sunday, the Iowa Department of Health put out new numbers showing Iowa’s biggest single-day spike in coronavirus cases yet. Iowa’s number of positive cases of COVID-19 is now 2,902, marking an increase of 389 from the reported totals from Saturday to Sunday. According to a press release put out by the IDPH, “261 or…
