From Iowa Capital Dispatch:
By Linh Ta
September 18, 2020
The new COVID-19 needs of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will leave the State Hygiene Laboratory unsused or treated the COVID-19 regime for long-term care services in Iowa.
The new requirement could generate more than 130,000 tests per week in Iowa, said Amy McCoy, a spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Public Health.
The State Hygiene Laboratory is expanding its overall capacity to perform up to 12,000 tests consistent with the day by the end of this fall, but this will still exceed its capacity.
“The state will have the amenities in each and every possible way, however, we haven’t gained any investment for this specific effort,” McCoy said in an email. “We perceive that this frequency of testing has presented challenges, adding the availability and charge of immediate mandatory testing, and we continue to talk about responses with our federal partners. “
The branch reported on Thursday 39 active COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes in Iowa, with 932 infections and residents related to the 39 outbreaks, compared to 36 outbreaks and 873 reported infections on Tuesday.
Nine other Iowans died Thursday from COVID-19, while the number of new infections reached 1,185, according to the New York Times’ COVID-19 tracker. minimize from the average two weeks before.
As the number of cases in Iowa decreases, the White House has a state protection order to protect the state’s most vulnerable populations in long-term care facilities.
The federal government has promised that 407 of the 444 long-term care services will get antigenic devices at the point of service for on-site testing. However, it is unclear when they arrive with “supply chain constraints,” McCoy said.
COVID-19 closes one of the best schools in east Iowa
North Scott Community High School in Eldridge is temporarily closed after 11 students tested positive for COVID-19, forcing two hundred students to quarantine, according to KWQC in Davenport.
Transitional school closures occur when Iowa school districts know how to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, while meeting the state’s requirement to hold 50% of classes in person.
Teachers and school board members across the state have opposed the governor and said that the resolution on whether to teach in the user should be left to local jurisdictions, but in Des Moines, network members also spoke out in favor of face-to-face courses. distance learning disadvantages color scholars and refugee families.
The Des Moines and Iowa City school districts requested court intervention to allow them to begin the school year virtually 100 percent. The judges did not grant any temporary injunctions allowing the districts to begin the year online.
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