Weeks after Iowa received its first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine, the state is still in the process of vaccinating health care workers and nursing homes, and some leaders say they feel vaccination efforts are moving slower than expected.
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Nursing homes have been slow to roll out COVID-19 vaccines, but federal, pharmacy and nursing home officials said they are on track to finish the job before the end of the month.
But Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said those figures underestimate actual vaccinations, because there is a lag between the time shots are given and when they are recorded.
DES MOINES - The owner of one of the three pharmacies participating in a federal program to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities across Iowa said his company completed its distribution of over 8,500 doses this week.
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DES MOINESÂ â The owner of one of the three pharmacies participating in a federal program to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities across Iowa said his company completed its distribution of more than 8,500 doses of the vaccine last week.
Kyle Janssen, the owner of an a pharmacist with Community Pharmacy, said during an interview this week that the company distributed its allotment of the vaccine to residents and staff in more than 80 long-term care facilities throughout the state in three days this week.
Janssen said next week the company expects to at least double that dosage delivery to more than 70 additional assisted living facilities across the state.
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