Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:35 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa congressman Steve King is on the outs with a significant bloc of his long-reliable conservative base, but not for almost two decades of incendiary utterances about abortion, immigrants and Islam. Instead, the nine-term congressman known for his nativist politics is fighting to prove he can still deliver for Iowa’s 4th Congressional District. Since Republican leaders stripped him of his committee assignments, King has been dogged by questions over whether he’s lost his effectiveness. King faces a potentially career-ending GOP primary on June 2. But should he eke out victory next week, there are Iowa Republicans who believe it could spell trouble for holding the GOP-heavy district in November.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The meat and poultry industry has historically relied on immigrant labor to do some of the most dangerous jobs in America, from employing refugees to a notorious record of hiring immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Now that reliance and uncertainty about the pandemic is fueling concerns about possible labor shortages to meet demands for beef, pork and chicken. Companies struggling to hire are spending millions on fresh incentives. Whether there’ll be long-lasting difficulties hinge on if employees feel safe, unemployment, industry reforms and President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An employee at the Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, Iowa, died Monday after battling the coronavirus during a six-week hospitalization that was chronicled and widely followed online.Jose Ayala, 44, died at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids. His friend and co-worker Zach Medhaug says it was painful to watch his friend succumb to the virus. Ayala had received treatment at three hospitals since April 12, and his ups and downs had gained a following on social media in the six weeks since then. Advocates say that Ayala is at least the fifth employee at the Tyson plant in Waterloo to die after contracting the coronavirus.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa saw a surge of COVID-19 deaths and coronavirus cases over a 36-hour period, with 10 additional deaths and 436 new cases confirmed. The state’s online dashboard by midday Monday showed 459 total deaths since the state’s first COVID-19 death two months ago. The state had reported 449 by midday Saturday. Figures also showed 17,555 in total have tested positive for the virus, with 342 of those cases confirmed Sunday and another 94 confirmed by midday Monday. The dashboard showed 9,355 had recovered. The numbers were released as the mayors of seven Iowa cities penned an editorial appearing in the Des Moines Register calling on federal officials to approve federal aid for cities.

(Radio Iowa) – Winnebago Industries has built mobile offices for doctors and dentists and the company’s vice president for strategic planning and specialty vehicles expects mobile units will continue to evolve because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Winnebago’s Ashis Bhattacharya says “There is probably going to be more sensitivity among customers in the mobile medical space for environments that are sterile, that can be easily cleaned and disinfected, that have been air systems and air circulation.”

Bhattacharya says the need for mobile medical vehicles will grow in the coming years as more clinics and hospitals close and so-called “medical deserts” develop across the country. Winnebago’s R-Vs can also make expensive medical equipment mobile. He says the company has designed a vehicle to transport a C-T scan machine that weighed two-and-a-half tons.

“We were able to find a way to put that machine on the shell; have it balanced properly; have it leveled; have the right kind of power, temperature, humidity, air conditioning, power back-up,” he says, “and that’s being used for things like early lung cancer screenings.” A converted Winnebago View now serves as a mobile medical unit at a family health clinic in Kansas City. It is being used as the region’s first COVID-19 drive thru testing site.

A hospital based in Hartfod, Connecticut is using a converted 40-foot Winnebago as a mobile testing site. The White House Coronavirus Task Force is partnering with the R-V Industry Association to produce and deliver 20 more of these sorts of units and Winnebago is part of that effort. Some of Winnebago’s mobile medical units are equipped for blood drives and to serve as a hub for outreach to opioid addicts.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An employee at the Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, Iowa, died Monday after battling the coronavirus during a six-week hospitalization that was chronicled and widely followed online.Jose Ayala, 44, died at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids. His friend and co-worker Zach Medhaug says it was painful to watch his friend succumb to the virus.

Ayala had received treatment at three hospitals since April 12, and his ups and downs had gained a following on social media in the six weeks since then. Advocates say that Ayala is at least the fifth employee at the Tyson plant in Waterloo to die after contracting the coronavirus.

The Iowa Department of Public Health and Audubon County Public Health, Monday, identified an additional case of COVID-19 in the county. The individual is an older adult aged 61-80. This additional case brings Audubon County’s total to 12 positive confirmed cases of COVID-19, this number includes 10 that have recovered, and one death.

A common question that Audubon County Public Health receives is a request for more information on a COVID-19 positive individual. Please keep in mind that when a new positive case is announced the Iowa Department of Public Health is only allowing the age range of the individual to be released. Due to confidentiality and HIPPA regulations any additional information including the person’s race, ethnicity, gender, city or employer is considered confidential information and cannot be given out.

(update 12:57-p.m.) DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa saw a surge of COVID-19 deaths and coronavirus cases over a 36-hour period, with 10 additional deaths and 436 new cases confirmed. The state’s online dashboard by midday Monday showed 459 total deaths since the state’s first COVID-19 death two months ago. The state had reported 449 by midday Saturday. Figures also showed 17,555 in total have tested positive for the virus, with 342 of those cases confirmed Sunday and another 94 confirmed by midday Monday. The dashboard showed 9,355 had recovered.

The numbers were released as the mayors of seven Iowa cities penned an editorial appearing in the Des Moines Register calling on federal officials to approve federal aid for cities.

Around the area, positive test results and (number of recovered) include: Cass County 11 (1); Adair County: 8 (3); Adams County: 5 (1); Audubon County: 11 (9); Guthrie County: 43 (29); Montgomery County: 6 (5); Shelby County: 31 (24) and Pottawattamie County: 213 (117).

In RMCC Region 4 (Southwest/western Iowa), seven people are hospitalized for COVID-19, three are in an ICU, and no one was admitted to a hospital.

DES MOINES, Iowa (The Des Moines Register) — Police in Des Moines have charged a woman with animal torture after they say she tried to kill her cat. The Des Moines Register reports that police learned of the attack after being called to an apartment around 2 a.m. Sunday for a report of an animal bite. Police say 21-year-old Rosemary Kay Buelow told them the cat had bitten her while she was showering and that she stabbed it in self defense. But police say after questioning, Buelow said she had stabbed the cat with a kitchen knife several times, then tried to drown it because she didn’t want to care for it anymore.