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A nurse at a mobile vaccination clinic run by the VA Puget Sound Health Care System holds a tray with a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday in Shelton, Wash.
Marshall County Public Health Nurse Pat Thompson is hoping the number of COVID-19 doses will increase in the weekly shipments sometime in March.
“They said we should receive the same amount we are now until mid-March,” she said. “The talk is it will increase after.”
Since February, Marshall County has received 500 doses each week of the Moderna vaccine. Thompson has moved quickly each week to get them to health care providers – UnityPoint, McFarland and Primary Health Care. She said the county is moving through the tiers in Phase 1B of the vaccination effort, but is still in Tier 1.
Gov. Kim Reynolds announced 25,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be distributed Wednesday and Thursday to 51 companies, and JBS in Marshalltown is
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Marshall County is back on track with the COVID-19 vaccinations. Last week, the shipment was delayed due to the severe winter weather spread across the country.