DES MOINES, IOWA (April 9, 2020) — On April 8, The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) was notified of 97 additional positive cases for a total of 1,145 positive cases. There have been an additional 1,151 negative tests for a total of 12,821 negative tests to date, which includes testing reported by the State Hygienic Lab and other labs. 

According to IDPH, an additional death was also reported:

DUBUQUE, IOWA (April 8, 2020) — University of Dubuque is excited to announce the 2020-2021 Live at Heritage Center SchoolBus Performance Series. The season will again include programs connected to STEAM — Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics.

The COVID-19 outbreak isn't over yet, but we've reached a turning point: American politicians and bureaucrats are beginning the tricky process of trying to simultaneously walk back their predictions of catastrophe, while awarding themselves the credit for those predictions not coming true, and avoiding the blame they deserve for inciting headlong irrational panic.

IOWA CITY, IOWA (April 8, 2020) — Allie Stutting was worried about her own grandparents when she first began to hear of a possible spread of coronavirus in the US and its effect on the elderly and other at-risk populations.

But it was a tweet about people she didn't know that propelled her to take action: An elderly couple in Oregon had flagged down a woman in a store parking lot, asking her to shop for them because they were fearful to go inside.