Iowa prisons resume COVID-19 vaccinations for inmates, but vaccine rate lags behind neighboring states Philip Joens, Des Moines Register What are you waiting for? : Gov. Kim Reynolds urges Iowans to get COVID vaccination
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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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We just don t have arms to put it in right now. Some Iowa counties decline state vaccine supplies as demand wanes Nick Coltrain, Des Moines Register
Gov. Reynolds, again, asks Iowans to get vaccinated for COVID-19
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Four months ago, the select people who qualified for COVID-19 vaccines were in a pitched race to secure the precious medicine.
Now, less than two weeks after eligibility expanded to everyone 16 or older, some counties are declining their full allocations of vaccine in the hopes that the doses will go to places where there s higher demand.
Winnebago County Public Health asked for only half of the 200 doses the state allocated to the county, Clinical Manager Allison Rice said. It s one of 21 counties that declined a full allotment of vaccines due to lack of immediate demand, Iowa Public Health Department officials said this week.
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