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How ready are drivers to return to the road after pandemic?
More Iowans are getting behind the wheel after many months of doing little driving during the height of the pandemic, and there’s concern they may have forgotten some important rules of the road.
Meredith Mitts, spokeswoman for AAA-Iowa, says distracted driving remains a crucial problem. A federal report blames distractions for 19 fatal crashes in Iowa in 2019.
“It is really hard to record distraction as the main cause of a fatal crash,” Mitts says. “If they happen to look down and change their radio and there was a deer, well, that’s going to be marked down as a deer caused this crash, when in reality, distraction did have a very major point in that.”
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Exactly when those Iowans will be able to get vaccinated, however, is not yet clear.
Johnson County public health officials say distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to people in the state s second, or 1B, phase could take anywhere between a few weeks to several months, due to its limited supply.
Phase 1A distribution, which included health care workers, began in mid-December and is almost complete.
At a county-wide meeting between local government bodies and the two Johnson County school districts Monday, a representative from the Johnson County Public Health Department updated those agencies representatives and the public on the distribution of the vaccine here as well as a word of caution.