IOWA CITY The Iowa City school board is celebrating news that staff in the district will begin receiving the COVID-19 vaccine this week, while warning getting everyone vaccinated will be a long process.
“It’s obviously slow going. That’s a theme we’ve heard from Johnson County Public Health and the state, but we also think this is fantastic news,” Iowa City schools chief operating officer Chace Ramey said during a school board meeting Tuesday.
Distributing vaccines is a “fluid situation,” Superintendent Matt Degner said.
The district is moving forward as “aggressively” as possible, and staff have expressed anxiety about when they can get the vaccine, he said.