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It took less than a month from the date Iowa opened COVID-19 vaccine eligibility all Iowans 16 or older for the vast majority of Iowa s counties to turn down at least some of the vaccine doses the state offered.
Nearly 90% of Iowa s counties turned down some or all of the vaccine doses the state offered their local health departments this week. Iowa officials turned down this week 71% of the supply the federal government was prepared to send.
But officials in 11 of the state s 99 counties asked the state to send everything: Benton, Black Hawk, Delaware, Fremont, Guthrie, Harrison, Louisa, Montgomery, Tama, Van Buren and Winneshiek.
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Harvest is rolling, and Aimee Bissell has settled into her autumn routine. First thing in the morning, she climbs into a combine and heads to the hilly fields in southwest Iowa to cut corn. She works in tandem with her husband in the second combine while her father-in-law and employees shuttle grain carts and semis.
Her lunch is on-the-go in the combine cab. Breaks are rare, and she plugs into an audiobook to keep her active mind entertained. Around 4 p.m., Aimee’s 17-year-old son arrives from school to take her place so she can go home to make supper. At 6:30 sharp, she serves a meal in the field from foam clamshell containers she has prepared assembly-line style in the kitchen. Then she drives back home, does laundry, cleans the house, begins her bookwork and helps her younger son with homework. Everybody is home around 10 p.m. and, “We go to bed and get ready to do the whole thing all over again,” she says.