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South Dakota is now being called the worst state in the nation for COVID-19 after a surge in cases during the last week.
The state has reported 2,152 cases in the past seven days, 243 cases per 100,000 people. That's the highest amount of cases per 100, in the nation, according to the tracking done by the New York Times.
Today Iowa added more than 600 new cases of the coronavirus and nine further deaths.
Today, United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue approved Gov. Reynolds' request for a Secretarial disaster declaration for several Iowa counties in the aftermath of last month's disastrous derecho.
A Secretarial disaster designation makes farm operators in primary counties and those counties contiguous to such primary counties eligible for certain assistance from the Farm Service Agency, including FSA emergency loans. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from a disaster declaration date to apply for emergency loans.
A former spokeswoman for the Iowa Department of Public Health has filed a lawsuit against the state, Gov. Kim Reynolds, and one of the governor's top aides that claims she was illegally fired because of her willingness to respond to media requests. Polly Carver-Kimm says she filed the lawsuit Wednesday against the state, Reynolds, and Pat Garrett, a spokesman for the governor, because they violated Iowa's whistleblower laws when she was forced out of her job in July.
South Dakota is now being called the worst state in the nation for COVID-19 after a surge in cases during the last week.
The state has reported 2,152 cases in the past seven days, 243 cases per 100,000 people. That's the highest amount of cases per 100, in the nation, according to the tracking done by the New York Times.
Today Iowa added more than 600 new cases of the coronavirus and nine further deaths.
Today, United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue approved Gov. Reynolds' request for a Secretarial disaster declaration for several Iowa counties in the aftermath of last month's disastrous derecho.
A Secretarial disaster designation makes farm operators in primary counties and those counties contiguous to such primary counties eligible for certain assistance from the Farm Service Agency, including FSA emergency loans. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from a disaster declaration date to apply for emergency loans.
A former spokeswoman for the Iowa Department of Public Health has filed a lawsuit against the state, Gov. Kim Reynolds, and one of the governor's top aides that claims she was illegally fired because of her willingness to respond to media requests. Polly Carver-Kimm says she filed the lawsuit Wednesday against the state, Reynolds, and Pat Garrett, a spokesman for the governor, because they violated Iowa's whistleblower laws when she was forced out of her job in July.
