Some Iowa counties donât know how much vaccine was received Share Updated: 9:08 AM CST Jan 12, 2021 Some Iowa counties donât know how much vaccine was received Share Updated: 9:08 AM CST Jan 12, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript a new link on the state's Cove in 19 Portal is the first report on data surrounding vaccines. State reports the number of doses put in arms by county and residents, but it doesn't show how many doses that state has received. Linn County Public Health told us it doesn't know how many doses it received because some vials come with an extra one or two doses. We did not know that you'd be able to pull out MAWR doses than what was in that bottle, so that was something that we learned over time. So that's something that we have to adapt. Thio. Some health departments are facing different problems. Washington County Public Health says it has about half of its vaccine allotment sitting in a freezer. This has been extraordinarily challenging. Washington County doesn't know the number of health care workers who need vaccine in their own county. Unlike Linn County, it doesn't have The resource is to make a database of healthcare workers, so it takes time to schedule appointments for those workers, which has to be done in groups of 10 to 12 people. Those groups have to have a range because those vials could contain extra doses, which could expire. There's no preservatives in it. So once we pierce the vile, we need to ensure that we have between 10 and 12 people ready to take that vaccine. We asked the state Health Department why each county was not given. The same resource is to administer the vaccine, and we haven't heard back yet. As of now, Washington County plans to reallocate the vaccine sitting in freezers, two other counties.