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Atlantic High School Activities Director Andy Mitchell will turn on the field lights at the High School at 8:00 p.m. as part of the “Be the Light” initiative from the Iowa HS Athletic Directors Association. High schools across the State are turning their lights on for 15 minutes tonight to represent the 15 days of school we have missed. We will do the same the next two Fridays for 20 and 25 minutes, respectively. This initiative is to show our support to the students in that we can not wait for them to return so we can turn not only field lights for them, but also gym, hallway and classroom lights as well when they return.
(Radio Iowa) — Top state officials say a new data point seems to indicate the effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 may be working in Iowa. Governor Kim Reynolds today (Friday) reported two more Iowans have died of the disease and 118 new cases of the virus were confirmed by testing in the past 24 hours. Iowa Department of Public Health director Sarah Reisetter says also they’re tracking other number — about when patients begin to show symptoms.
“We have said all along that we anticipated last week was going to be a difficult week in terms of cases. Again, at the beginning of this week we said we fully expected to see our case numbers start to climb,” Reisetter says. “But, when we look at our onset of symptoms data, that appears to be flattening.” Governor Reynolds says that data showing when Iowans who’ve gotten a positive COVID-19 test first began showing symptoms of the virus will be released to the public next week.
The Iowa Department of Public Health’s website shows 1388 positive cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Iowa and the deaths of 31 Iowans are linked to the virus.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An infectious and fatal strain of bird flu has been confirmed in a commercial turkey flock in northeast South Carolina, the first case of the more serious strain of the disease in the United States since it was reported in a Tennessee chicken flock in 2017.
A less severe strain of bird flu had been detected along the North Carolina and South Carolina state recently but the case in Chesterfield County, South Carolina discovered on Monday was found to be a more fatal and easily spread strain. More than 32,000 turkeys in the flock were euthanized. The USDA confirmed it Thursday.
Officials with Cass County Public Health, in Atlantic, report today (Friday), the number of positive COVID-19 test results in Iowa continues to climb and currently stands at 1,388. As of today (Friday), there have been no confirmed cases reported in Cass County. Cass County Public Health Director Beth Olsen says “We are urging residents not to be complacent about following public health recommendations, just because a confirmed case has not been reported here yet. It’s important to remember there is widespread community transmission across the state. This means the virus is spreading from person-to-person, and often without known contact with a positive case.”
A resident’s chance of exposure to the virus is high, regardless of there being no confirmed case in Cass County. This is why all residents are advised to stay home as much as possible, and when they must leave for essential errands like groceries or to get medication, they maintain a 6-foot distance from other individuals and avoid groups of people. This is because the risk of exposure to the virus is NOT limited to exposure to a known case; you could just as easily be exposed to an undiagnosed individual at the grocery store.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa regulators ordered health care providers Friday to take steps to address a shortage of personal protective equipment for workers treating coronavirus patients. Iowa Department of Public Health deputy director Sarah Reisetter said the department was issuing an emergency order with directives on what providers should do if they cannot get enough face masks, shields and gowns to provide standard care. If they face shortages, providers are directed to use face masks that have expired, not change them for each patient encounter, use washable gowns and shorten hospital stays for coronavirus patients.
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A blood bank operating in Missouri and three other Midwestern states is seeking plasma donations from people who have recovered from the coronavirus in hopes of helping those still battling the disease. A spokesman for the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center said Friday that the blood bank is seeking people who tested positive and have not had symptoms for at least 28 days.
The blood bank operates in parts of Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. The therapy was used during the 1918 flu pandemic, and has been used in recent years to treat victims of Ebola, SARS and the H1N1 virus.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and 24-year prison sentence of an Iowa City man who fired shots into a crowded pedestrian mall in Iowa City in 2017, killing one man and injuring two others. Lamar Wilson claimed a stand-your-ground law the Iowa Legislature passed earlier in 2017 provided him immunity from prosecution. The Supreme Court found that while several states including Florida and Kansas afford immunity from prosecution in their similar laws, Iowa does not.
The court says Wilson lacked justification to shoot at a group of men from Cedar Rapids during a heated argument.
The Iowa Department of Public Health reports two new, COVID-19 deaths over the past 24-hours (11-a.m. Thursday to 11-a.m. Friday). Governor Kim Reynolds updated the statistics during her press conference this (Friday) morning:
According to IDPH, the locations and age ranges of the 118 (NEW) individuals with COVID-19 include:
The Governor also touched on the fact that 354,000 Iowans are Food Insecure. Those families may now be faced with the recent loss of jobs, children out of school, and [having] trouble making ends meet. “Iowa’s six Feeding America Food Banks and their 1,200 community partners across the State, provided 38-million meals to Iowans in need last year. And while [the] COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything we’ve ever experienced, we remain committed to feeding even more Iowa families during these challenging times.”
Last month, she said, Iowa Food Pantries helped 65% more Iowans with applications for food assistance than the same time last year. “But as the number of food insecure Iowans increases, so does demand on our food banks and pantries.” She said Lt. Governor Adam Gregg has been put in charge of a “Feeding Iowans Task Force,” established to raise awareness of hunger related issues, identifying potential gaps in the system connecting resources to ensure that Iowans have food on their tables, and making sure Iowans know where to go, to get help.”)
If you’re in immediate need of food, Reynolds says “Please go to your nearest food bank, food pantry or to cornonavirus.iowa.gov for food assistance information.” She said also, those same facilities are in need of volunteers. Go to volunteeriowa.org to find out where you can lend a hand.
OMAHA, NE –FBI Omaha Field Office Special Agent in Charge Kristi K. Johnson is encouraging parents, students and teachers to take advantage of the FBI’s Safe Online Surfing program; a free, fun and educational program for children. The goals of FBI’s Safe Online Surfing (SOS) Internet Challenge program are to teach children in third through eighth grades how to recognize and respond to online dangers such as cyberbullying, online predators, and identity thieves.
The SOS program teaches young people about web terminology and how to recognize secure and trustworthy sites. Other lessons cover how to protect personal details online, create strong passwords, avoid viruses and scams, be wary of strangers and be a good virtual citizen. Students and their parents can visit the island that corresponds with their grade level and surf through activities that teach how to recognize hazards and respond appropriately.
The SOS program is designed to meet all federal and state Internet safety mandates so that students and teachers can use this as part of their curriculum in the classroom. Schools can compete with each other on a national level and schools with the highest scores will earn an FBI-SOS certificate. More than 1 million students completed the program and took the SOS exam during the 2018-2019 school year. SOS activities are available to everyone, but teachers must register for a class to participate in the tests and competition. Any public, private or home school in the United States with at least five students is eligible for the online challenge. Teachers manage their students’ participation in the program and the FBI does not collect or store any student information.
Since October 2012, the FBI-SOS website has been visited nearly 3.6 million times, with a total of more than 10.6 million page views. Parents, students, and teachers can visit https://sos.fbi.gov/en/ to register.
Here is the video feed for Governor Reynolds’ Friday press briefing. We will have live audio as well on KJAN at approximately 11:00 a.m.
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