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Counties concerned about withholding of Covid vaccine doses
Public health officials in five counties are expressing confusion, dismay and frustration over the state’s decision to withhold each county’s share of Covid-19 vaccine doses this week.
State officials say those counties fell below administering at least 80% of the doses it had received. Jennifer Havens, the CEO of UnityPoint Health in Grinnell, says Poweshiek County scheduled this week’s vaccinations on Friday and weren’t aware state officials would check the schedule on Thursday.
“It’s not that we’re hanging onto them,” she says. “We had every dose accounted for.”