As the COVID-19 pandemic incomprehensibly nears the year three milestone, positive case counts related to the most recently discovered omicron variant have been surging through the state. In Tama County, the seven-day positivity rate has reached an all-time high of 37.3 percent according to ...

Leaders at Meskwaki Settlement School met the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 12, and made the decision to switch to virtual instruction beginning Thursday, Jan. 13, continuing through the following week due to increasing COVID-19 infections among the student body. Superintendent Steve Hanson, via ...

Tama County Public Health (TCPH) have begun holding their first child vaccine clinics for kids ages 5-11 to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. The doses made available to TCPH are the Pfizer vaccines. Families are asked to call ahead to set an appointment for one of the clinic times if they ...

The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the State Hygienic Lab (SHL) have confirmed detection of the first case of the COVID-19 variant, Omicron, in an Iowa resident. The case involves an unvaccinated individual under the age of 18 who resides in Black Hawk County. The individual ...

Tama County Public Health (TCPH) will be holding a vaccine clinic on Friday, Dec. 10 from 9 a.m. to Noon at the Iowa Juvenile Home facility in Toledo. The clinic will offer the single shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-9 vaccine. TCPH officials said this round of Johnson & Johnson vaccines ...

The topic of COVID-19 mitigation and masking for school students and staff was before the South Tama County Board of Education during their regular meeting on Sept. 20. Following a federal ruling in early September that temporarily halted the State of Iowa’s law that banned schools from ...

There is no room at hospitals for people due to rising COVID-19 numbers. Dr. Lance Van Gundy with UnityPoint – Marshalltown aired his concerns and frustrations regarding the state of the pandemic situation in a viral Thursday Facebook post, which can be viewed here: ...