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Sioux City Mayor Bob Scott declared March 1st COVID-19 Memorial Day.
“To remember the survivors and victims of the COVID-19 Pandemic and to acknowledge the sacrifices and service of all first responders, medical providers, and others who have stepped up during this global pandemic.”
Council Member Alex Watters questioned if more could have been done to prevent deaths in the community.
“I get so frustrated because I wonder if some of those lives could have been spared if we could have just put the partisan politics aside and understood and listen to science.”
Sioux City Council Member Alex Watters
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The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in all three Siouxland States.
Siouxland District Health says Woodbury County will receive almost 2,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the next few days for front-line health care workers. Director Kevin Grieme admits the vaccine will only cover about 50% initially needed.
Other doses will come in phases and the national pharmacy network will distribute additional doses to long-term care facilities.
When the vaccine by Moderna gets the go-ahead there will be 400 doses for EMS workers in Woodbury County.
Dakota County isn’t scheduled to receive the vaccine yet. But, when it does, health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities and staff will get top priority. The vaccine is estimated to be available to the general public in April.
SIOUX CITY Woodbury County is slated to receive 1,950 doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine in the next few days.
Siouxland District Health Department Director Kevin Grieme made the long-awaited announcement of the vaccine s impending arrival Monday during a news conference at the Security Institute on Western Iowa Tech Community College s campus. He said health care workers staffing emergency rooms and treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients will be the first to be immunized. What the community needs to understand is that simply within Woodbury County we have over 4,000 individuals that are employed in our health care businesses and companies, so we don t even have enough to meet half of the demand that s there, Grieme said. Our goal is to really address the needs of our health care population.