COVID-19 pandemic in Iowa

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Iowa in March 2020. The first known cases were three individuals who had traveled on a cruise in Egypt before returning home to Johnson County on March 3.

COVID-19 pandemic in Iowa
Drive-through testing site
at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines
Map of the outbreak in Iowa by confirmed infections per 100,000 people (as of June 26)
  1,000+ confirmed infected
  500–1,000 confirmed infected
  100–500 confirmed infected
  20–100 confirmed infected
  0–20 confirmed infected
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationIowa, U.S.
Index caseIowa City
Arrival dateMarch 8, 2020
(3 months and 3 weeks)
Confirmed cases23,926[1]
Hospitalized cases203 (current)[1]
Critical cases77 (current)[1]
Ventilator cases47 (current)[1]
Recovered14,383[1]
Deaths
652[1]
Government website
Iowa Department of Public Health

Timeline

March 2020

  • March 8 – The first confirmed COVID-19 cases in Iowa were announced — three individuals who had traveled on a cruise in Egypt before returning home to Johnson County on March 3.[2]
  • March 9 – Governor Kim Reynolds signed a Proclamation of Disaster Emergency.[3]
  • March 15 – Governor Reynolds recommended closing schools for four weeks. The state worked on developing legislation to provide child care during the emergency, including food for low-income students. The total number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the state increased to 22.[4]
  • March 25 – Number of cases in Iowa reached 145, and one fatality reported in Dubuque County.[5]
  • March 26 – Governor expanded upon previous Covid-19 disaster proclamations to halt non-essential surgeries.[6]
  • March 27 – Governor's office asserted: "[The] Proclamation suspends all nonessential or elective surgeries and procedures until April 16th, that includes surgical abortion procedures".[7]
  • March 28 – The number of coronavirus cases in Iowa reached 298.
  • March 29 – Number of cases in Iowa reached 336, and a fourth fatality reported in Linn County.[8]

April 2020

  • April 1 – Number of cases reached 549, and the number of fatalities reached 9.[9]
  • April 2 – Governor Reynolds ordered schools to remain closed through the end of April.[10]
  • April 4 – Number of cases reached 786, and the number of fatalities reached 14.[11]
  • April 9 – The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has been notified of 125 additional positive cases for a total of 1,270 positive cases. There have been an additional 882 negative tests for a total of 13,703 negative tests to date, which includes testing reported by the State Hygienic Lab and other labs.[12]
  • April 10 – As of April 10, there were 14,565 negative COVID-19 test results reported by the State Hygienic Lab and other labs, and a total of 1,388 positive cases.[13] Members of the White House including Jared Kushner, Kellyanne Conway, Joseph Grogan, Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other White House coronavirus task force members receive from Robert Redfield the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidance documents and decision trees to re-open communities, however, the CDC guidance and decision trees for communities including meat packers was rejected for the White House's "Opening Up America Again Plan" that is later released in early May.[14][15][16]
  • April 17 – Governor Kim Reynolds announced that Iowa schools remain closed for the remainder of the school year.
  • April 20 – As of April 20, there were 22,661 negative COVID-19 test results reported by the State Hygienic Lab and other labs, and a total of 3,159 positive cases, with 79 deaths attributed to COVID-19.[13]
  • April 27 – Governor Reynolds announced that 77 counties will remove some business restrictions on May 1 while the counties of Polk, Dallas, Black Hawk, Linn, Louisa, Tama, Johnson, Bremer, Benton, Allamakee, Dubuque, Fayette, Marshall, Jasper, Iowa, Poweshiek, Scott, Washington, Muscatine, Henry, Des Moines, and Woodbury will maintain full business restrictions until May 15 because they were hard hit with infections.[17][18][19]

May 2020

  • May 6 – Hy-Vee began limiting meat purchases to four packages.[20] Reynolds met with President Trump at the White House to discuss coronavirus outbreak and her response.[21]
  • May 7 – As of May 7, there were a total of 11,059 positive cases, with 231 deaths attributed to COVID-19.[22]
  • May 13 – Governor Reynolds announced that reopenings of restaurants, libraries, and fitness centers will be extended to the entire state, and also include barbershops, tattoo parlors, massage therapists, and salons, as of May 15.[23][24]
  • May 14 – As of May 14, there were a total of 13,675 positive cases, with 318 deaths attributed to COVID-19.[25]
  • May 28 – As of May 28, there were a total of 18,502 positive cases, with 500 deaths attributed to COVID-19.[26]

June 2020

  • June 13 – For the first time since early April, no COVID-19-related deaths were reported.[27]
  • June 14 – As of June 14, there were a total of 23,879 positive cases, with 651 deaths attributed to COVID-19.[27]

Government response

Food distribution in Charles City

On April 3, 2020, Governor Reynolds defended her government's response, arguing that the measures taken, including closing schools and some businesses, were equivalent to a mandatory shelter-in-place or stay-at-home directive.[28]

Testing

Initially, Iowa had a low rate of persons testing positive for the coronavirus. Upon a recommendation from Ashton Kutcher, a Utah-based company was hired to run Iowa's $26 million coronavirus testing program.[29][30][31][32][33][34]

On April 25, 2020, the first new testing site was launched in Des Moines under the new initiative TestIowa.com.[35][36][37]

During a May 6, 2020, White House meeting with Governor Reynolds, President Trump responded to the substantially increased coronavirus testing rate that "... all this testing, we make ourselves look bad... we're going to have more cases."[38]

On May 14, 2020, Governor Reynolds announced that the Iowa State Hygenic Lab had completed TestIowa's validation and could start processing these tests as well.[39] As of May 22, 2020, the TestIowa program was operating eight test sites.[40]

As of May 22, 2020 researchers at the University of Iowa were hoping for a newly developed at-home spit test to be approved within weeks.[40]

Impact

Researchers at Iowa State University created a web hub to help track the coronavirus pandemic's impacts on the economy.[41][42]

Meatpacking industry

Iowa's largest industry sector is manufacturing[43], with food manufacturing constituting the largest subsector.[44] Therefore, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the meat packing industry is particularly disruptive to the industry in Iowa.

Five meat packers dominate the United States with over 80% of the market: JBS, Smithfield, Cargill, Tyson, and Hormel.[45]

Tyson Foods plants

On April 26, 2020, John Tyson, the billionaire heir and chairman of the board of Tyson Foods which is the second-largest meat packer in the world, stated that nationwide meat shortages were likely due to the coronavirus outbreak.[46] According to Liz Croston, Tyson Foods communications manager, when a plant has 10% or more testing positive, the plant will be shut down.[47]

  • In April 2020, a Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Columbus Junction closed down after 148 workers tested positive for coronavirus, and two workers died.[48][49]
  • The Tyson plant in Waterloo shut down on April 22 after more than 180 tested positive for the coronavirus.[50][51] The Tyson Foods plant at Waterloo re-opened on May 7, 2020.[52] On May 8, 2020, Black Hawk County health officials revealed that 1,031 of the 2,800 workers or 38% at the Waterloo plant tested positive for the coronavirus.[53][54]
  • The entire workforce at the Perry Tyson Foods plant was tested on April 25, 2020.[55][56] On May 6, 2020, Sarah Reisetter, deputy director for the Iowa Department of Health, stated that 730 out of a workforce of over 1,200 at the Perry Tyson Foods plant had tested positive for coronavirus and that before closing, 26% of the Columbus Junction plant and 17% of the Waterloo plant had tested positive for COVID-19.[57][58][59]
  • On May 8, 2020, at Sioux City in Woodbury County, health officials were conducting extensive testing for the Siouxland District Health Department due to its close proximity to the Tyson Foods plant at Dakota City, Nebraska in addition to the testing at the Test Iowa site. According to Tyler Brock, Deputy Director for Siouxland District Health, no results of the testing will be made public until the Iowa state epidemiologist, the state director of heath, approves its release to the public.[60] On May 2, 2020, Woodbury County had the second highest coronavirus test positive rate at 35% in Iowa.[61]
  • On Saturday May 16, 2020, the state of Iowa through Test Iowa will test more than 3,000 employees at the two Tyson Foods plants at Storm Lake in Buena Vista County.[62]

Iowa Premium National Beef

On May 6, 2020, the Iowa Premium National Beef plant in Tama was reported having a coronavirus cluster.[63]

Hormel

On May 6, 2020, the Hormel plant in Osceola was reported having a coronavirus cluster.[64]

West Liberty Foods

On May 8, 2020, the West Liberty Foods turkey packing plant at West Liberty announced furloughing one third of their workforce after the sharp decline in demand for turkey products which resulted in a huge oversupply of turkey products in cold storage and that 136 employees out of 994 tested positive for the coronavirus. Since farmers will reduce the size of their turkey flocks sent to the plant for 18 weeks beginning in June, the plant will not process turkeys beginning in November 2020 and continuing for four months until spring 2021.[65]

Upper Iowa Beef

By May 13, 2020, 22 of 150 people associated with an Upper Iowa Beef plant in Lime Springs, Iowa were tested positive for COVID-19.[66][67]

Unemployment

By May 14, 2020, Iowa reported record new weekly unemployment claims for eight straight weeks, totaling at 299,098, which represents almost 20% of Iowa's eligible workforce.[68]

Education

The University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa are expecting losses from the coronavirus pandemic to exceed $76 million, $89 million, and $28 million, respectively.[69] All three public universities are also considering freezing tuition and fees for the academic year 2020-21. Both University of Iowa and Iowa State University project decreased fall enrollment.

Elections

In Iowa's primary elections, polling locations were greatly reduced: for example there were 28 locations instead of the usual 135 in Polk County.[70] 55,000 absentee votes were cast in the county.

Prisons

Through a statewide prison labor program, prisoners across Iowa helped make 98,000 masks, 40,000 gowns, 17,000 face shields, and 24,000 gallons of hand sanitizer within a few weeks.[71]

Sports

Due to Minor League Baseball being shut down, the Iowa Cubs are exploring making Principal Park available for concerts and amateur baseball games.[72]

Softball and baseball games were supposed to begin being carried out again in Iowa starting on June 15.[73]

Statistics

COVID-19 cases in Iowa, United States  ()
     Deaths        Recoveries        Active cases

Mar Mar Apr Apr May May Jun Jun Last 15 days Last 15 days

Date
# of cases
# of deaths
2020-03-07
3(n.a.) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-08
3(+0%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-09
7(+133%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-10
12(+71%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-11
13(+8%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-12
16(+23%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-13
17(+6%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-14
18(+6%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-15
22(+22%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-16
24(+9%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-17
31(+29%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-18
42(+35%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-19
52(+24%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-20
81(+56%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-21
107(+32%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-22
132(+23%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-23
154(+17%) 0(n.a.)
2020-03-24
181(+18%) 1(n.a.)
2020-03-25
238(+29.3%) 1(+0%)
2020-03-26
296(+24.4%) 2(+100%)
2020-03-27
365(+23.3%) 3(+50%)
2020-03-28
431(+18.1%) 4(+33.3%)
2020-03-29
519(+20.4%) 5(+25%)
2020-03-30
573(+10.4%) 6(+20%)
2020-03-31
634(+10.6%) 10(+66.7%)
2020-04-01
716(+12.9%) 12(+20%)
2020-04-02
845(+18%) 13(+8.3%)
2020-04-03
924(+9.3%) 18(+38.5%)
2020-04-04
1,054(+14.1%) 21(+16.7%)
2020-04-05
1,072(+1.7%) 26(+23.8%)
2020-04-06
1,204(+12.3%) 26(+0%)
2020-04-07
1,333(+10.7%) 28(+7.7%)
2020-04-08
1,455(+9.2%) 31(+10.7%)
2020-04-09
1,592(+9.4%) 36(+16.1%)
2020-04-10
1,735(+9%) 39(+8.3%)
2020-04-11
1,912(+10.2%) 43(+10.3%)
2020-04-12
2,115(+10.6%) 47(+9.3%)
2020-04-13
2,197(+3.9%) 53(+12.8%)
2020-04-14
2,280(+3.8%) 56(+5.7%)
2020-04-15
2,548(+11.8%) 62(+10.7%)
2020-04-16
2,699(+5.9%) 67(+8.1%)
2020-04-17
3,160(+17.1%) 75(+11.9%)
2020-04-18
3,475(+10%) 80(+6.7%)
2020-04-19
3,963(+14.%) 88(+10%)
2020-04-20
4,066(+2.6%) 95(+8%)
2020-04-21
4,236(+4.2%) 101(+6.3%)
2020-04-22
4,807(+13.5%) 108(+6.9%)
2020-04-23
5,524(+14.9%) 118(+9.3%)
2020-04-24
5,989(+8.4%) 123(+4.2%)
2020-04-25
6,430(+7.4%) 129(+4.9%)
2020-04-26
7,021(+9.2%) 137(+6.2%)
2020-04-27
7,688(+9.5%) 147(+7.3%)
2020-04-28
8,005(+4.1%) 159(+8.2%)
2020-04-29
8,806(+10%) 172(+8.2%)
2020-04-30
9,323(+5.9%) 181(+5.2%)
2020-05-01
9,917(+6.4%) 192(+6.1%)
2020-05-02
10,407(+4.9%) 197(+2.6%)
2020-05-03
10,787(+3.7%) 212(+7.6%)
2020-05-04
11,097(+2.9%) 229(+8%)
2020-05-05
11,428(+3%) 239(+4.4%)
2020-05-06
11,826(+3.5%) 248(+3.8%)
2020-05-07
12,269(+3.7%) 261(+5.2%)
2020-05-08
12,471(+1.6%) 272(+4.2%)
2020-05-09
12,801(+2.6%) 285(+4.8%)
2020-05-10
13,238(+3.4%) 303(+6.3%)
2020-05-11
13,757(+3.9%) 318(+5%)
2020-05-12
14,150(+2.9%) 331(+4.1%)
2020-05-13
14,511(+2.6%) 345(+4.2%)
2020-05-14
14,938(+2.9%) 362(+4.9%)
2020-05-15
15,200(+1.8%) 368(+1.7%)
2020-05-16
15,517(+2.1%) 379(+3%)
2020-05-17
15,784(+1.7%) 390(+2.9%)
2020-05-18
16,059(+1.7%) 406(+4.1%)
2020-05-19
16,294(+1.5%) 423(+4.2%)
2020-05-20
16,675(+2.3%) 435(+2.8%)
2020-05-21
17,099(+2.5%) 445(+2.3%)
2020-05-22
17,578(+2.8%) 464(+4.3%)
2020-05-23
17,863(+1.6%) 472(+1.7%)
2020-05-24
18,252(+2.2%) 491(+4%)
2020-05-25
18,424(+0.9%) 501(+2%)
2020-05-26
19,213(+4.3%) 513(+2.4%)
2020-05-27
19,450(+1.2%) 527(+2.7%)
2020-05-28
19,678(+1.2%) 538(+2.1%)
2020-05-29
19,976(+1.5%) 550(+2.2%)
2020-05-30
20,321(+1.7%) 555(+0.9%)
2020-05-31
20,584(+1.3%) 566(+2%)
2020-06-01
20,914(+1.6%) 576(+1.8%)
2020-06-02
21,194(+1.3%) 587(+1.9%)
2020-06-03
21,412(+1%) 597(+1.7%)
2020-06-04
21,799(+1.8%) 605(+1.3%)
2020-06-05
22,167(+1.7%) 615(+1.7%)
2020-06-06
22,289(+0.6%) 623(+1.3%)
2020-06-07
22,554(+1.2%) 630(+1.1%)
2020-06-08
22,851(+1.3%) 638(+1.3%)
2020-06-09
23,153(+1.3%) 642(+0.6%)
2020-06-10
23,403(+1.1%) 649(+1.1%)
2020-06-11
23,728(+1.4%) 651(+0.3%)
2020-06-12
24,038(+1.3%) 656(+0.8%)
2020-06-13
24,310(+1.1%) 661(+0.8%)
2020-06-14
24,459(+0.6%) 667(+0.9%)
2020-06-15
24,593(+0.5%) 675(+1.2%)
2020-06-16
24,744(+0.6%) 679(+0.6%)
2020-06-17
25,073(+1.3%) 682(+0.4%)
2020-06-18
25,376(+1.2%) 685(+0.4%)
2020-06-19
25,815(+1.7%) 689(+0.6%)
2020-06-20
25,975(+0.6%) 692(+0.4%)
2020-06-21
26,329(+1.4%) 692(+0%)
2020-06-22
26,526(+0.7%) 694(+0.3%)
2020-06-23
26,760(+0.9%) 698(+0.6%)
2020-06-24
27,143(+1.4%) 698(+0%)
2020-06-25
27,581(+1.6%) 699(+0.1%)
2020-06-26
27,959(+1.4%) 701(+0.3%)
2020-06-27
28,318(+1.3%) 702(+0.1%)
2020-06-28
28,557(+0.8%) 704(+0.3%)
Cases: The number of cases confirmed in Iowa.

Sources: [74]

    County [lower-alpha 1] Cases [lower-alpha 2] Deaths [lower-alpha 3] Recov. Pop. Cases / 100k Ref.
    99 / 99 28,265 725 17,078 3,236,087 873
    Adair 14 11 7,493 187 [75]
    Adams 7 5 3,774 185 [76]
    Allamakee 121 4 90 14,194 852 [77]
    Appanoose 20 3 16 12,432 161 [78]
    Audubon 15 1 11 5,798 259 [79]
    Benton 55 1 42 26,313 209 [80]
    Black Hawk 1,948 56 1193 133,956 1,454 [81]
    Boone 125 1 77 26,826 466 [82]
    Bremer 85 6 70 25,518 333 [83]
    Buchanan 41 1 31 21,592 190 [84]
    Buena Vista 1677 10 566 20,179 8,311 [85]
    Butler 38 2 29 15,221 250 [86]
    Calhoun 29 18 10,074 288 [87]
    Carroll 71 1 54 20,938 339 [88]
    Cass 16 16 13,610 118 [89]
    Cedar 68 1 50 18,973 358 [90]
    Cerro Gordo 68 1 30 44,361 153 [91]
    Cherokee 68 56 11,621 585 [92]
    Chickasaw 22 15 12,110 182 [93]
    Clarke 114 2 71 9,747 1170 [94]
    Clay 113 73 16,690 677 [95]
    Clayton 37 3 31 18,341 202 [96]
    Clinton 83 1 67 47,729 174 [97]
    Crawford 651 2 383 17,096 3,808 [98]
    Dallas 1110 29 700 95,445 1163 [99]
    Davis 36 1 25 9,058 144 [100]
    Decatur 9 7 8,276 109 [101]
    Delaware 36 28 18,643 193 [102]
    Des Moines 82 2 62 39,542 207 [103]
    Dickinson 232 2 92 17,739 1,308 [104]
    Dubuque 478 22 246 99,002 678 [105]
    Emmet 66 31 9,729 678 [106]
    Fayette 30 28 20,171 149 [107]
    Floyd 52 1 23 16,119 323 [108]
    Franklin 67 30 10,755 623 [109]
    Fremont 6 2 7,369 81 [110]
    Greene 28 19 9,172 305 [111]
    Grundy 27 17 12,472 216 [112]
    Guthrie 64 4 48 11,043 580 [113]
    Hamilton 177 112 15,219 1163 [114]
    Hancock 41 28 11,050 371 [115]
    Hardin 57 24 17,168 332 [116]
    Harrison 47 41 14,751 319 [117]
    Henry 80 3 71 20,056 399 [118]
    Howard 15 10 9,377 160 [119]
    Humboldt 46 1 34 9,649 477 [120]
    Ida 21 18 6,842 307 [121]
    Iowa 40 33 16,457 1243 [122]
    Jackson 21 13 19,980 105 [123]
    Jasper 305 17 212 37,545 812 [124]
    Jefferson 50 - 41 17,234 290 [125]
    Johnson 901 8 522 154,377 584 [126]
    Jones 47 41 20,978 224 [127]
    Keokuk 18 1 14 10,300 175 [128]
    Kossuth 29 15 15,141 192 [129]
    Lee 44 1 33 34,508 128 [130]
    Linn 1,141 81 892 231,709 492 [131]
    Louisa 357 13 289 11,341 3,148 [132]
    Lucas 28 3 18 8,807 318 [133]
    Lyon 19 17 11,868 161 [134]
    Madison 16 1 11 17,145 98 [135]
    Mahaska 116 16 90 22,385 518 [136]
    Marion 22 15 34,049 66 [137]
    Marshall 994 18 616 40,922 2,429 [138]
    Mills 12 9 15,632 80 [139]
    Mitchell 4 3 10,925 38 [140]
    Monona 15 12 8,953 173 [141]
    Monroe 22 1 4 7,937 282 [142]
    Montgomery 5 5 10,399 50 [143]
    Muscatine 596 43 512 43,324 1,376 [144]
    O'Brien 78 1 41 14,273 543 [145]
    Osceola 27 16 6,151 447 [146]
    Page 10 9 15,585 66 [147]
    Palo Alto 701 19 24 9,354 7494 [148]
    Plymouth 88 54 26,150 351 [149]
    Pocahontas 3 2 6,961 45 [150]
    Polk 5,724 171 2,802 503,534 1137 [151]
    Pottawattamie 655 11 457 95,336 687 [152]
    Poweshiek 86 8 62 19,344 460 [153]
    Ringgold 0 5,143 [154]
    Sac 5 2 9,934 51 [155]
    Scott 309 8 276 175,011 178 [156]
    Shelby 23 19 11,856 199 [157]
    Sioux 143 55 35,727 410 [158]
    Story 80 1 59 100,529 82 [159]
    Tama 433 29 353 17,278 2,506 [160]
    Taylor 3 1 6,223 48 [161]
    Union 2 1 12,457 16 [162]
    Van Buren 8 8 7,232 114 [163]
    Wapello 692 28 609 34,969 [164] 1,979 [165]
    Warren 80 51 53,066 157 [166]
    Washington 173 8 132 22,829 781 [167]
    Wayne 1 1 6,556 16 [168]
    Webster 13 1 8 37,517 36 [169]
    Winnebago 7 4 10,836 67 [170]
    Winneshiek 21 17 20,718 105 [171]
    Woodbury 3,097 43 2,648 105,781 2,269 [172]
    Worth 3 2 7,576 40 [173]
    Wright 23 6 13,012 181 [174]
    Updated May 18, 2020
    Data is publicly reported by Iowa Department of Public Health[175][176]
    1. County where individuals with a positive case diagnosed, not where they were reside. Location of original infection may vary.
    2. Reported cases includes presumptive and confirmed case. Actual case numbers are probably higher.
    3. "–" denotes that no data is currently available for that county, not that the value is zero.

    See also

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