COVID source callout: Iowa ends COVID-19 case reporting

April 9, 2023.Reading time 1 minute.

As of April 1, Iowa’s state health department is no longer requiring public health laboratories to report positive COVID-19 test results—and no longer reporting statewide data to the CDC. This decision, announced in late February, is part of a growing trend away from relying on case data as people use at-home tests instead of PCR tests.

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States treating COVID-19 as “endemic” is leading to shifts in data collection and reporting

February 20, 2022.Reading time 16 minutes.

Some states are making major shifts in the ways they collect and report COVID-19 data. State public health departments are essentially moving to monitor COVID-19 more like the way they monitor the flu: as a disease that can pose a serious public health threat and deserves some attention, but does not entirely dictate how people live their lives.

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