View Comments It took less than a month from the date Iowa opened COVID-19 vaccine eligibility all Iowans 16 or older for the vast majority of Iowa's counties to turn down at least some of the vaccine doses the state offered. Nearly 90% of Iowa's counties turned down some or all of the vaccine doses the state offered their local health departments this week. Iowa officials turned down this week 71% of the supply the federal government was prepared to send. But officials in 11 of the state's 99 counties asked the state to send everything: Benton, Black Hawk, Delaware, Fremont, Guthrie, Harrison, Louisa, Montgomery, Tama, Van Buren and Winneshiek.