About half of Iowa vaccine providers can deny access to noncustomers, nonpatients Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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Roughly one-half of Iowa’s 1,700 providers of the COVID-19 vaccine are free to deny the vaccine to noncustomers, according to state health officials.
With many Iowa clinics and hospitals refusing the vaccine to anyone who is not already doing business with them as a patient, some Iowans must go to pharmacies that may not be local, or that lack the same level of staffing and experience in giving vaccines.