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Posted March 1st, 2021 at 4:13pm by Pat Rynard Counties with nursing home outbreaks, 3/1/21
While Iowa’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout started slow and has run into problems caused by poor planning, the state is seeing real results from the quickly researched and produced vaccines.
The most noticeable difference between now and the worst days of the pandemic come from Iowa’s nursing homes, which have suffered the brunt of tragedy. As of Monday afternoon, there are only 19 longterm care facilities currently experiencing an outbreak (defined as three or more positive current cases).
As the AARP’s Brad Anderson noted last week, that’s less than half of the number of outbreaks from several weeks ago, and much lower than the 162 active outbreaks back in December.