The Webster County Health Department reported on Friday that there have been 124 positive COVID-19 tests in the past seven days. The county’s positivity rate is at 10%, which is an increase of 2% from the state’s last update. According to Kelli Bloomquist, WCHD public information ...

Will a COVID-19 vaccine alter my DNA? No. COVID-19 vaccines do not change or interact with your DNA in any way. Both mRNA and viral vector COVID-19 vaccines deliver instructions (genetic material) to our cells to start building protection against the virus that causes COVID-19. However, ...

Get vaccinated or increase your risk of suffering more severely from COVID-19. That’s the message from the Iowa Department of Public Health on the heels of an increase in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in recent weeks. “While there are multiple tools available to prevent ...

Seven Friendship Haven residents and five staff members, many of whom were vaccinated, have tested positive for COVID-19. Friendship Haven staff announced Monday that six residents in the River Ridge neighborhood and one resident in the Kenyon Place Apartments had tested positive for COVID-19. ...

While the COVID-19 vaccine has given many a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, less than half of Webster County residents eligible to receive the vaccine have elected to do so. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health’s coronavirus website, the current COVID-19 vaccination ...

As new cases of COVID-19 begin to increase, as well as the introduction of new strains and variants of the virus, public health officials across the state are encouraging residents who have not yet been vaccinated to make an appointment to do so. “It is important to get vaccinated,” said ...