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The Iowa Department of Corrections in January received an allotment of the Moderna vaccine from the state that allowed them to fully vaccinate about 1,200 eligible staff members and 200 prisoners with serious health conditions.
Most of those inmates, which represent about 3% of Iowa s prison population of approximately 7,600, were at the Iowa Medical Classification Center in Coralville that houses inmates with serious health conditions like kidney failure and cancer.
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Just after noon on Nov. 6, Melinda McNabb received a call from a prison counselor at Clarinda Correctional Facility. Her son, Christopher James Rios, an inmate serving decades for a burglary and robbery, had contracted the coronavirus.
For McNabb, 52 and a mother of four, the news was worrying but expected: Coronavirus was peaking in Iowa’s prisons.
“I figured it was just a matter of time,” she said of her 28-year-old son’s positive test. He was one of 4,800 prisoners who have tested positive for coronavirus in the state s overcrowded prisons since the pandemic hit Iowa more than a year ago.