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Des Moines Register A week after Iowa received its first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, it has begun receiving thousands of doses of a second companys vaccine, and pharmacy teams will start vaccinating residents and staff of long-term care facilities next week, Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday. Reynolds noted at a news conference that because of a federal planning error, the state is receiving about 20% less vaccine than expected this month. But she said such complications ar...

The governor announced that she would ease some restrictions, including a requirement that bars and restaurants close by 10 p.m. But she said the public must remain vigilant, including by staying home when sick, avoiding large crowds and wearing masks when they cant stay distant from others. "We are so close to seeing the end of this," she said.  Kelly Garcia, director of Iowas Department of Human Services, said a second version of the vaccine, made by Moderna, could arrive in Iowa by Monday i...

Des Moines Register Bars and restaurants can resume normal operating hours and there will no longer be a limit on the size of gatherings other than distance between people, but other rules to limit the spread of the coronavirus will remain in place, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Wednesday. The remaining requirements, including that Iowans unable to socially distance wear masks when in indoor public spaces, will be in place until Jan. 8, Reynolds said. Bars and restaurants must also limit gr...

Veronica Guevara spent a month this spring watching her grandfather slowly dying of COVID-19 during video calls.  Jose Dolores Guevara Ramirez, known to friends and family as Don Lole and a resident of Marshalltown, died May 27, one week after Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds had ordered flags flown at half-staff to honor Iowans lost to the disease. He was among the first 525 Iowans to fall victim to the pandemic, part of the spring wave of death that ripped across the state.  Seven months later, the...

Veronica Guevara spent a month this spring watching her grandfather slowly dying of COVID-19 during video calls.  Jose Dolores Guevara Ramirez, known to friends and family as Don Lole and a resident of Marshalltown, died May 27, one week after Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds had ordered flags flown at half-staff to honor Iowans lost to the disease. He was among the first 525 Iowans to fall victim to the pandemic, part of the spring wave of death that ripped across the state.  Seven months later, the...