Governor Pens Open Letter to Iowans Regarding COVID-19 and Asks for Vigilance

August 13, 2020

On Friday, Gov. Kim Reynolds released the following open letter to the state of Iowa: "Tomorrow marks five months since we learned of the first positive cases of COVID-19 in Iowa. Since then, our lives have been disrupted in ways we couldn’t have imagined. Schools and businesses closed. A record number of Iowans were suddenly out of work. And our normal daily routines were turned upside down as we prioritized doing things differently to mitigate the spread of the virus..." Read the full letter.