We just don t have arms to put it in right now. Some Iowa counties decline state vaccine supplies as demand wanes Nick Coltrain, Des Moines Register
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Four months ago, the select people who qualified for COVID-19 vaccines were in a pitched race to secure the precious medicine.
Now, less than two weeks after eligibility expanded to everyone 16 or older, some counties are declining their full allocations of vaccine in the hopes that the doses will go to places where there s higher demand.
Winnebago County Public Health asked for only half of the 200 doses the state allocated to the county, Clinical Manager Allison Rice said. It s one of 21 counties that declined a full allotment of vaccines due to lack of immediate demand, Iowa Public Health Department officials said this week.
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