Iowa State University Reveals Results Of Student COVID-19 Testing
(Ames) — Iowa State University has released the results of the first round of COVID-19 tests for students moving back to campus.
The information shows three-thousand-37 students moving into the residence halls and campus apartments took tests. Sixty-six-students — or two-point-two percent tested positive. Two-thousand-971 students tested negative (97.8%). The school is providing isolation rooms for those who test positive and quarantine rooms for those who are notified they’ve been exposed to someone with a positive test. I-S-U reports that about of half those who tested positive returned home to complete their isolation. The school will do more testing next week. I-S-U is the only state university requiring the
tests.
An I-S-U spokesperson says the students must isolate for ten days, and have no fever for at least 24 hours, without the use of fever-reducing medications, and see improvement of other symptoms. They do not have to be retested to leave isolation.
Lawmakers Discuss Passed Law About Students Returning To Class
(Des Moines) — A bill that passed the legislature with overwhelming BIPARTISAN support has become a flashpoint in the debate over how schools should start this month. The bill, which is now law, says Iowa schools should develop plans for rigorous online courses — but the law goes on to say that
unless Governor Reynolds grants an exception, a school shall not take action to provide instruction primarily through remote-learning.
Democrats like Senator Herman Quirmbach of Ames say the law gives the governor authority to grant exceptions, she’s just choosing to override local decision makers.
Quirmbach says as school officials and parents criticize the new guidelines for when schools may shift to online instruction, the governor’s trying to shift the blame onto the legislature by citing this new law.
Republican Speaker Pat Grassley of New Hartford says the criticism is off base.
Republican Senator Amy Sinclair says the governor is following the plain text of the law.
Sinclair, who is from Allerton, is chair of the Senate Education Committee.
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World War II Aircraft On Display This Weekend At Mason City
(Mason City) — The B-17 Bomber “Sentimental Journey” and the P-51 Mustang “Tuskegee Airmen” are both at the Mason City Municipal Airport this weekend.
The bomber is owned by the Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum and is flying through the Midwest as part of their “Flying Legends of Victory Tour”.
Senior pilot Chris Schaich says the B-17 was the premiere strategic bomber at the start of World War II and was very instrumental in helping the United States win the war.
Schaich says what makes it really special is that it’s a flying museum that allows people to come out and tour the airplane inside and out.
Schaich says it’s an honor to be flying the plane around the country, especially when veterans come to see it.
Schaich talks about the experience of riding in the B-17.
Ground tours will take place with it costing $10 per person or $20 for a family of four. To take a ride in the bomber, it’s $425
to sit in a compartment seat, and $850 to sit in the
bombardier compartment. For the ride in the P-51 Mustang jump seat, it costs $1995.
