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Vaccine demand varies by county; many see interest decline, availability open up
DHS: Shots won’t go unused
April 22, 2021 4:41 PM Madalyn O Neill
In the beginning, appointments filled quickly. Demand looked endless. Supply, however, was harder to come by.
“In Iowa County, every drop that we get, is going in an arm,” Iowa County Emergency Management Director Keith Hurlbert said. “We seem to have more demand than we have vaccine at this point.”
“I just know counties around us have had a tougher time lately to fill all of their slots,” he said. “It’s different. Even the county next door can have the exact opposite situation to what we have.”
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Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause leaves gaps in vaccine distribution
April 19, 2021 8:30 PM Madalyn O Neill
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In Iowa County, there’s already a gap between vaccine supply and demand.
“We seem to have more demand than we have vaccine at this point,” Emergency Management Director Keith Hurlbert said. “Our allocations have been rather small. In the last few weeks, even smaller a little frustrating from that standpoint. Now with the Johnson & Johnson issue, smaller yet.”
That translates to a bigger gap and fewer vaccinations. Hurlbert said last week’s total allotment included 140 Moderna doses and 100 Johnson & Johnson doses, now waiting in storage. That meant canceling appointments and shifting those they could to the Moderna vaccine.
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In this June 18, 2014, photo, Rod Williams, a Purdue University associate professor of herpetology, holds a hellbender that he and a team of students collected in southern Indiana s Blue River near Corydon, Ind. (AP Photo/Rick Callahan)
The Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation district went through a long road to get a proposal to take over a piece of land and protect the eastern hellbender on the governor’s desk.
Now, thanks to some help from state Rep. Ron Ferguson, R-Wintersville, Gov. Mike DeWine’s signature is the last thing needed for the project to become a reality.