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The new COVID-19 cases the state reports each week is an undercount because it doesn't include people who are infected more than once.

Courtesy Sara Anne Willette(NEW YORK) -- For millions, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant working from home, seeing friends and family less and other changes to life as they knew it. In many cases, it also meant dealing with the virus either themselves or with a loved one. Restrictions came and went and widespread vaccination and boosters brought the promise of a return to normalcy, especially as the omicron wave subsided. But for some, the pandemic has meant one thing -- isolation with no end in sight. Sara Anne Willette, an Iowa resident who has common variable immunodeficiency, said she has sp...

Many disabled, elderly, or immunocompromised people continue to isolate amid the COVID-19 pandemic, two years after it began.

Bleeding Heartland Saturday, Jun 26 2021 The Iowa Veterans Home is currently experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak. Families and guardians of loved ones living at the state-run facility in Marshalltown–the largest nursing home in Iowa–were notified on June 22 that four employees and five residents had tested positive that day. All lived or worked in the same building. An email sent on June 25 indicated that another resident in the same unit (Malloy 3) had tested positive, and all six affected residents were in the home’s COVID unit. As of June 25, the long-term care dashboard on the state�...

Thousands of Iowans who had COVID-19 were not contact traced during the November surge, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying.