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Vials of the Moderna vaccine sit in a cart at a Tama County vaccine clinic on Feb. 1.
Iowa has administered nearly 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Some counties are holding large-scale clinics to get the vaccine into the arms of many people quickly. Local health officials have worked to make sure no vaccine from these clinics goes to waste.
Mass clinics in counties including Cerro Gordo and Woodbury vaccinate hundreds to at least a thousand people each time. People eligible for the vaccine make appointments, but sometimes they don’t show up. Brian Hanft, the director of public health for Cerro Gordo County Public Health said the last thing he wants is to waste any vaccine.
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Chapter one: The beginning
The United States reported its first COVID-19 case on Jan. 21, 2020. Three days later, Illinois reported its first case.
During this time, Iowa started preparations, including seminars for schools and businesses to learn about what to do in case an outbreak occurred.
On March 6, Nebraska reports its first case, closing in on Iowa.
Gov. Kim Reynolds orders partial activation of the State Emergency Operation Center (SEOC) the next day. We knew I think, from the very beginning, this was going to be serious. I don t know if we thought it would last a year, but we knew it was going to be serious, Reynolds told Local 5 s Rachel Droze in an interview last month.
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We’re approaching the first anniversary of confirmation of the first cases of COVID-19 in the state of Iowa. Siouxland Public Media reached out to Kevin