Iowa still seeing community spread of COVID-19
The state of the pandemic in Iowa is far from the bleak highs of cases, hospitalizations and deaths seen in the winter. The two-week totals of Iowans testing positive, being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 are all fractions of what they once were.
Nearly 59% of the state s adults have at least one dose of vaccine and nearly half of adult Iowans are fully vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But a positive trend is not the finish line.
The Brown School of Public Health lists every Iowa county as in the community spread stage of the pandemic or worse, where it should be assumed the COVID-causing coronavirus is circulating in the community.
Hunter 05/14/21 University of Iowa Health Care wasted no time once the CDC approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for younger patients. The Gazette reports that
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DES MOINES, Iowa - Governor Kim Reynolds wants Iowa s COVID-19 vaccination rate to 65 percent of adults by the end of May, and 75 percent in June.
Reynolds set the goal Wednesday, while also floating the idea of sending mobile vaccination clinics at baseball games and farmers markets.
Demand for vaccine shots has dropped in Iowa, with 80 of the state’s 99 counties declining all or part of their weekly allotment.
Vaccine shots given to people peaked in early April and have fallen off in the weeks since then.
University of Iowa Health Care announced this week that it s joining a national campaign to motivate more people to get vaccinated.
By Jason Taylor
US-POLITICS-LABOR-TRUMP
DES MOINES, Iowa - Governor Kim Reynolds wants Iowa s COVID-19 vaccination rate to reach 65 percent of adults by the end of May, and 75 percent in June.
Reynolds set the goal Wednesday, while also floating the idea of sending mobile vaccination clinics to baseball games and farmers markets.
Demand for vaccine shots has dropped in Iowa, with 80 of the state’s 99 counties declining all or part of their weekly allotment.
Vaccine shots given to people peaked in early April and have fallen off in the weeks since then.
University of Iowa Health Care announced this week that it s joining a national campaign to motivate more people to get vaccinated.