opinion

Evans: Public health ‘rock star’ gives us straight talk

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In the world of contagions, epidemics and vaccines, there are not many true rock stars. There is, of course, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His face is recognizable worldwide from his television briefings on the coronavirus epidemic sweeping the globe. Another is Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. His assistance is routinely sought by world leaders when a new pathogen threatens.

opinion

Bush 41 And Iowa Farm Couple Have Lit The Way

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We Americans are an impatient bunch. We typically don’t like to wait in line — unless there’s something we truly want, like much-sought-after concert tickets or whatever this year’s Tickle Me Elmo gift was on Black Friday.

Government & Politics

Big push in Iowa to decriminalize failure to tell intimate partner about HIV infection

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Advocates calling for an end to Iowa’s law that makes failure to reveal an HIV infection to an intimate partner are making a big push in Iowa this week to lobby state legislators to change the law. State Sen. Matt McCoy (D-Des Moines), who filed a bill in this General Assembly that decriminalizes failure to disclose and calls for other reforms in Iowa’s HIV notification law, said that Thursday, Feb. 7, is a particularly important day for the bill. That is when supporters will make their biggest push in Des Moines. “We’re hoping it’ll be a great time to educate a lot of legislators on why we need to reform the HIV criminalization statute, and why we need to bring HIV in line with other communicable diseases,” McCoy said.

Government & Politics

Senate Bill Would Ease HIV Transmission Law

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State legislators are expected to consider a bill to ease parts of a controversial Iowa law allowing
imprisonment of HIV-infected people for up to 25 years if they don’t reveal their condition
before having “intimate contact” with another person.