As public health departments across the state including Washington County have begun declining weekly COVID-19 vaccine allocations due to decreased demand, U.S. Representative for Iowa’s Second District and former Iowa Department of Public Health Director Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) is encouraging all Iowans 16 years and older to get vaccinated.
Iowa’s vaccine dashboard showed Friday that 2,222,768 total doses have been administered to Iowa residents, and 1,041,462 vaccine series have been completed, about one-third of Iowans’ population. When she’s not in Washington, D.C., Congresswoman Miller-Meeks has been assisting at vaccine clinics in her district, emphasizing the necessity of vaccinations in order to achieve herd immunity, which is estimated at 70-85% of the population.