Des Moines Sun

'Seeking people who enjoy the outdoors': Iowa state parks need volunteer campground hosts

By Karen Kidd | Jan 9, 2022

Iowa Department of Natural Resources said it's looking for more than a few good volunteer campground hosts for the upcoming recreation season.

Flu numbers increasing in Iowa, health agencies and news outlets report

By Karen Kidd | Jan 8, 2022

Iowans are catching the flu at increasing rates, along with increasing rates of COVID-19, according to a news story published last week by a Des Moines-area news outlet

'Respect the decisions of others,' Gov. Reynolds declares after her recent COVID booster

By Karen Kidd | Dec 9, 2021

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and her husband, Kevin, recently got their COVID-19 booster vaccine to better protect themselves over the coming winter months, the governor said in a recent social media post

Self-proclaimed Iowa COVID tracker's efforts made difficult by state's reporting, including recent hospitalizations data scale-back

By Karen Kidd | Dec 3, 2021

A self-proclaimed social-media-based Iowa COVID-19 data tracker has released her latest graphs based recently released hospitalization data that news reports say is a scale-back about those hospitalizations

Vaccine choice group says reports of Iowa hospital administering wrong dose to kids isn't the first case

By Karen Kidd | Dec 3, 2021

A Georgia COVID "vaccine choice" group recently said this past weekend that a report about children in Iowa receiving the incorrect COVID vaccine dose isn't the first time they've heard of such a thing

UIHC reports 'drastic increase in flu cases' this season, urges Iowans 'to protect yourself'

By Karen Kidd | Nov 30, 2021

University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics has been sounding alarms that staffing shortages are a thing at the state's health care facilities while positive cases of flu and COVID-19 are on a dramatic rise.

Rains ease drought conditions in Iowa and rest of Midwest, U.S. Drought Monitor reports

By Karen Kidd | Sep 12, 2021

Iowa went into this past Labor Day weekend with some excellent drought news.

'Humans on Earth will benefit' from billionaires' recent space flights, retired astronaut turned Iowa State professor declares

By Karen Kidd | Jul 31, 2021

Competing billionaires launching themselves into space is a great boon for "humans on earth," retired astronaut and now Iowa State University Professor Clayton Anderson told a Des Moines news outlet earlier this week

Principal Real Estate Investors refuses to respond to hotel industry COVID-19 crisis 'Fairness in Hotel Lending Standards'

By Karen Kidd | May 30, 2020

Des Moines-based Principal Real Estate Investors did not respond to questions about whether it will abide by a newly founded hotel industry group's lending standards amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has gutted the hospitality industry.

From Hawkeye Reporter

Half of COVID-19 deaths were residents in long-term care facilities, Reynolds reports

By Karen Kidd | 5 years ago

More than half of Iowans who have died from COVID-19 were residents in longterm care facilities, Iowa Gov. Gov. Kim Reynolds said during a press conference Tuesday, May 5.