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Exhausted hospital workers face ongoing COVID-19 hospitalizations

On the eighth floor of Iowa Methodist Hospital in downtown Des Moines, 56-year-old Russell Braley watched daytime TV in one of the recovery units, breathing through a tube

By Natalie Krebs / Side Effects Public Media and Iowa Public Radio

/ 20 Oct 2021

Exhausted hospital workers face ongoing COVID-19 hospitalizations

As Iowa opens up, COVID-19 vaccination rates continue to slow

It’s a hot evening at the Broadway Neighborhood Center in Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa. Student volunteers have set up a mobile COVID vaccination clinic among

By Natalie Krebs / Side Effects Public Media and Iowa Public Radio

/ 9 Jul 2021

As Iowa opens up, COVID-19 vaccination rates continue to slow

As demand for COVID-19 vaccinations drops, one Iowa community nears herd immunity

Genesis Ramirez grips a digital timer, her legs swinging in a chair in the waiting room of the Meskwaki Tribal Health Center in Tama County, Iowa. The 17-year-old

By Natalie Krebs / Side Effects Public Media and Iowa Public Radio

/ 8 May 2021

As demand for COVID-19 vaccinations drops, one Iowa community nears herd immunity

Non-English speakers get support understanding details of COVID vaccine

The Midwest is home to tens of thousands of immigrants — including refugees from countries like Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iraq. It has been a challenge to

By Natalie Krebs / Side Effects Public Media and Iowa Public Radio

/ 5 Apr 2021

Non-English speakers get support understanding details of COVID vaccine

Looking back, virus strained Iowa hospitals of all sizes

Joel Wells says the worst moments at rural Wayne County Hospital came last fall, when COVID-19 hospitalizations were spiking statewide. Wells works as a family physician in the third

By Natalie Krebs / Side Effects Public Media and Iowa Public Radio

/ 25 Mar 2021

Looking back, virus strained Iowa hospitals of all sizes

Iowa Rural Hospitals Make Tough Choices To Stay Lean, Provide Needed Care

Hospital leaders say a policy fix is needed to ensure the future of rural hospitals in Iowa and across the country that are succumbing to financial pressures and closing their

By Chelsea Keenan, IowaWatch, Sara Konrad Baranowski, Iowa Falls Times Citizen, Natalie Krebs / Side Effects Public Media and Iowa Public Radio, Mark Mahoney, N'west Iowa REVIEW and Michaela Ramm, The Gazette

/ 30 Sep 2019

Iowa Rural Hospitals Make Tough Choices To Stay Lean, Provide Needed Care

News21 Report: New Gun Control Groups Are Entering The Gun Debates

Twenty months after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, some would say little has changed when it comes to guns in America. Others would say everything has. A special News21 report explains.

By Justine McDaniel/News21, Allison Griner/News21 and Natalie Krebs / Side Effects Public Media and Iowa Public Radio

/ 18 Aug 2014