The Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court has issued an order ending the mask requirement in courthouses beginning today. The mask requirement was implemented as the pandemic took hold – then was dropped for a time – and then reinstated again with rising cases of the COVID Delta variant. the Iowa Department of Public Health reports COVID-19 hospitalizations have dropped for the third straight week. There were 617 people in Iowa hospitals compared to nearly 800 last week. The 14-day test positivity rate has reportedly dropped from 20 percent to 16 percent.
