{"id":1264,"date":"2020-04-23T21:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2020-04-23T21:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T21:16:58","slug":"statewide-covid-19-testing-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/statewide-covid-19-testing-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide COVID-19 testing launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more Iowans can work together to\u00a0<span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\">crush the curve<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in the spread of COVID-19, the sooner we can get back to work.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Reynolds recently announced the Test Iowa initiative to expand testing so that we can stem the spread of the virus and get Iowans back to work as quickly and safely as possible. Iowa is only the second state to put in place such a widespread testing initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment informs Iowans of their current health status, whether or not they should get a COVID-19 test and instructions on how to get tested. Governor Reynolds kicked off the\u00a0<a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/testiowachallenge?source=feed_text&amp;epa=HASHTAG&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAYBDC4MyxcnDXpIvPJx8g0i6fz3ZhJFCr5r72HCScCEI9TtH52zsx69wfsPhaF3MXbyP5w5jX2hr1Mbwgx-TDySKAvFcRISukQlzAUJbVH9TFicFJ_sZRmRmak1ziBUxbuOddBdtxzoZBIV90EaClRpfa9BA3h5BgUVdPzqfHEMs6y586oNVkS84nP4fBtqzrBJZG-cd_jXnmYMjQ8oU_ldRAof_nyPVa72VcNV3WWxZHlV7zzLZfhMwHcL-OMF6HRjKlLJVAWGMvbLyKdfDHS5DIbu2wrDX92UsaDt2qEyBHMfjVidqzeIvMbgppceO2b-zAkTd9xvqSCj1mQPMKUP9Bw&amp;__tn__=%2ANK-R\" data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:104,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;}\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">TestIowaChallenge<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and encouraged all Iowans to go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.testiowa.com\/?fbclid=IwAR3LQZvWVQjUClVYDoszjGHmX_7XmPtFwgI6YEIqsCnZKGEfnzyrHVq0d0U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;-U&quot;}\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\" data-lynx-uri=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.testiowa.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3LQZvWVQjUClVYDoszjGHmX_7XmPtFwgI6YEIqsCnZKGEfnzyrHVq0d0U&amp;h=AT1sMqOWMMePJiHRdmOkWX8eTyhVJ7r5ioeOL_VKyWiI96edYdhmpvqCTtxRlDtbDTcxm_qb2YxDS9L6YT178lpDhD-gA06DvpdM32itNb2FZMdAcP7H3Aqkgqq1JMBzep_2DH4xCm8HlQjtGKdw7pEqJJO97FS2Kidmj_yT3Z46l18aKEXwuRz11vfoIdkl-F83JbrC6r0rxtFvqm0Lq3h5gTzPzUtXqGAy5kYO_J7R9UTLjCnz56kY9cOuAm9DVUmx8zlhPxT289-WY-GbY2hpI9v3lcEgN9VWnV44uKAZYbZ5X8phvA0ZrWBSG-wkQ4rFXHRRfYDBnMEFaOKoXxUi2aFWVBbGF99w5-a_RWeF4Th-C5VrgCCP9otB-nNgyNY10XeeyXp6vbYnXz_AnAec0OPEYEULW7ZpqeJqLFxGm2P84kWVaJtMkjg27kd0eAiiuPi7xjiLug_fKMoP5cjJ6q5J6dDluF8ULrwnllGqYVeK-r_MUAMlv__to8dY4sof0JkcrWR5rBffAIqV-VWzqKRtLrvFtHG5LCQGiJw9IfdZChdC09VcUxVs9BRAZikjhjUvTj1hlJn0_5yxWoxUyiMGInZvqor8FjU9k1_5d_P2HD8SonfaRIdra2pQO4-A5g\">https:\/\/www.testiowa.com\/<\/a>\u00a0to complete the assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more Iowans can work together to\u00a0crush the curve\u00a0in the spread of COVID-19, the sooner we can get back to work. Governor Reynolds recently announced the Test Iowa initiative to expand testing so that we<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/statewide-covid-19-testing-launched\/\"> &#8230;Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-iowa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}