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Waterloo reports some of the highest STD rates in Iowa — a distinction tied directly to the city's demographic profile and the structural conditions that have persisted since deindustrialization reshaped its economy. Waterloo has one of the largest Black communities per capita of any Iowa city, and Iowa Department of Public Health data documents severe racial STD disparities, with Black residents facing chlamydia and gonorrhea rates multiple times higher than white residents statewide — disparities concentrated most acutely in Waterloo's Northeast and East Side neighborhoods. The city gained national attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for the Tyson Foods outbreak at its pork processing plant, exposing the vulnerability of its large immigrant meatpacking workforce — primarily Latino and African immigrant workers — who face the same structural access barriers to STD screening as in peer meatpacking cities like Storm Lake and Marshalltown. University of Northern Iowa in neighboring Cedar Falls adds a young adult population, but Waterloo's STD burden is rooted in economic and racial geography rather than college-town dynamics.