Joyce Flinn, Iowa's Homeland Security and Emergency Management director, says things are working well with state's coronavirus response. Des Moines Register
This would typically be the cheeriest week of the year at the Reihmann house in Clive.
Five televisions would be propped up in the basement, tuned to college basketball games. Twenty to 30 friends, some flying to Iowa from as far away as Seattle, would gather to watch the first 48 games of March Madness, a communal experience that feels so foreign this year.
The sports world has been put on a forced hiatus as the real world turns its attention to a coronavirus pandemic that reached Iowa on March 8.