/So are governesses (Kim Reynolds) should be voted out office today she announced that her primary concern was getting charities to pay for daycare no mention of testing and nothing about how to stop the spread just fucking Business as usual
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Reynolds closes more businesses, provides additional guidelines for child care
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Updated: 3:25 PM CDT Mar 22, 2020
JOHNSTON, Iowa —
Gov. Kim Reynolds announced new ways the state is assisting businesses and childcare services in combating COVID-19.
Closing more businesses:
Reynolds announced she signed a proclamation Sunday morning to close salons, tattoo establishments, barbershops, massage therapy businesses, tanning salons, medical spas and swimming pools effective 10 p.m. Sunday.
Child care:
The Iowa Department of Human Services offered new guidelines for child care providers to follow. As the department continues to work with the governor's office, it is currently finding more spaces to house child care services.
The following guidelines were issued:
- Parents and guardians must drop off children a the door where the children's temperatures will be taken by a staff member. If a staff member of child has a temperature of 100.4 degrees they must go home.
- Child care services must practice distancing during this time as much as possible.
- DHS suggest removing plush toys from child care services and prohibit toys being brought in from home.
- DHS suggest all blankets the child uses throughout the day be brought home and washed every day.
- Child care services must send DHS updates every day about its availability. DHS has established an online map that shows parents and guardians what child care facilities have openings.
Forclosures:
Reynolds' proclamation also included suspending forclosures for residential, commercial and agricultural properties.
Licensing:
The proclamation also provides relief for medical professionals wanting to step up but concerned about their medical licenses expiring during this time. Medical licenses will not expire during the foreseeable future.
Current cases:
On Sunday morning, the Iowa Department of Public Health announced there were 22 additional cases confirmed in the state. This brings the total to 90 cases in Iowa.
Presumptive positive cases have been found in Adair, Black Hawk, Allamakee, Pottawattamie, Fayette, Henry, Linn, Story, Carroll, Harrison, Winneshiek, Washington, Dallas, Muscatine, Dubuque, Cerro Gordo, Kossuth, Scott, Sioux, Tama, Woodbury, Polk and Johnson counties. Reynolds announced that the coronavirus is now community spread.
Sounds good however the self isolation is not being enforced and there’s still plenty of places still open now compare what she said earlier this week
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Gov. Reynolds: Widespread coronavirus testing isn’t needed
COVID-19
MAR 22, 2020
PERRY BEEMAN
IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH
Pool photo courtesy of Des Moines Register Gov. Kim Reynolds says widespread coronavirus testing is unnecessary.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and her state epidemiologist on Thursday said a public furor over the number of COVID-19 tests performed in the state, and around the country, is misplaced.
The topic has been burning up cable shows and Twitter and Facebook feeds across the nation.
Statehouse reporters grilled the officials at a news conference Thursday afternoon. They wanted to know why more tests aren’t being conducted.
Regardless of whether you are tested, if you don’t feel well, you need to stay home, Dr. Caitlin Pedati, the state medical director and epidemiologist, and Reynolds said.
Everyone needs to keep their distance from other people during the coronavirus outbreak, Pedati said. That, in the end, is the one thing that could slow the spread of the virus, which causes everything from mild flu-like symptoms to death.
“We continue to hear questions and concerns, and understandably so, about whether or not people need to be tested for this virus,” Pedati said.
“I think that it’s important to keep in mind that not everybody does need to be tested. In fact, many of us will probably never need to be tested. That’s because most of us, about 80 percent, would only experience a very mild kind of illness, similar to a cold or the flu,” Pedati added.
And for all but the most serious of cases, the advice would be the same — stay home and rest.
Currently, there is no vaccine available.
Pedati said the state has 800 test kits on hand. Reynolds said the White House is working on getting more.
But both Pedati and Reynolds said the focus should not be on massive testing at this point. With community spread established, their message would be the same even with far more test kits available: If you don’t feel good, you should stay home. If you think you have COVID-19, you should call your doctor’s office for advice on what to do next. Drink fluids. Rest. Cover your coughs.
If you have recently visited a country that has a Level 3 warning for COVID-19, you should stay home for two weeks and avoid contact with others, Pedati said.
With the relatively limited testing that has been done, 44 cases have been confirmed across 13 counties in Iowa. Another 622 tests were negative. The state hygienic laboratory has added a third shift to help speed test results, state officials said.
Iowa Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, said national reports note that 80 percent of those carrying the virus don’t know it, so Iowa could have hundreds of thousands of cases. “I think all the advice about staying home, washing hands, etc, is essential,” Bolkcom wrote in an email to reporters. “But it’s not enough … We don’t want to scare people but without needed widespread testing, people should assume (which won’t happen for a while) they might very well be infected right now. We all think we are in danger of getting infected when a bunch of us already are.”
Reynolds, a Republican, this week declared an emergency. Schools, bars, churches, casinos, theaters and other facilities are closed temporarily, and some events in late May have been canceled.
In a related matter, Reynolds said she is still working with state economic development officials and others to come up with assistance for businesses disrupted by the virus outbreak.
So there’s nothing they can do stay home try not to get sick also there barely enforcing the stay at home self isolation order people here are wandering around like it’s a holiday
luckily the weather is cold wet and snowy so more people should stay home
