because it was kind of dropped on us last night. We haven’t We haven’t sent our plan for sure on how we will serve that population. Specifically, Buchanan County Department of Public Health director Tie Burkhardt says all 400 shots they have to give out next week are already scheduled. We’re trying to make it as widely available as possible, but some of the other clinics for that tiered group, um, is already set, and I can’t take that vaccine back to change direction right now. The state’s announcement Thursday night that vastly expands who can get the shot didn’t come with much advance notice to the county Health Department’s. Burkhardt says they’ve been planning clinics weeks in advance and need time to make the necessary changes. A week or two would have been better than we would have at least known. Okay, let’s not plan five clinics for businesses. Let’s do three, and then we can do to clinics for the population that meet it because of chronic health conditions. This isn’t the first time Burkhardt and her department have felt the state misled them. Three weeks ago, the state told her they were withholding the weekly vaccine allotment. The state did that to six counties that didn’t meet its distribution threshold, but then walked back the threat. Days later. One word exhausted. That’s that’s the best way we can summarize it. Um, we love what we do. We want to help the community. This is what Governor Reynolds team had to say during a meeting Friday afternoon with frustrated health departments. We hear you and we’ve heard you every time we recognize that everything is so compressed, Um, and it just continues to be that way. We are doing everything we can to try to give as much notice, and we recognize that we just haven’t been able to get into a place where that, you know, several days notice. It’s just not something that we’ve been able to do. Burkhardt says she will be working this weekend to form a plan to include the newly added group not for this week but for the following. Until then, she’s reminding herself that the work matters and the validation comes from a safer community. Today I was able to give a vaccine to a person who was so happy that she started crying and when you see that you realize OK, it’s it’s okay, this is why we’re doing this, um, to to protect the individuals
More than 260,000 Iowans now fully vaccinated against COVID-19
Updated: 10:00 AM CST Mar 7, 2021
The Iowa Department of Public Health reported 418 new positive COVID-19 tests and six additional virus deaths Sunday.At 10 a.m., the health department reported 367,027 total positive tests, 320,056 total recoveries and 5,558 total deaths since the start of the pandemic. The health department reported 366,609 total positive tests and 5,552 total deaths 24 hours earlier.State data shows 864,749 vaccine doses have been administered in the state, with 263,782 individuals completing vaccination. Find out how you can get vaccinated in Iowa here.Iowa’s positivity rates continue to hover around 4%. The 14-day average is at 4%, while the 7-day average is now 3.9%. Health department data shows 4,143,401 COVID-19 tests have been administered in Iowa.Virus hospitalizations continue to decline in Iowa. The number hospitalized with the virus dropped from 170 to 167. The are 35 patients in ICU and only 6 patients on ventilators, the lowest number the state has reported since it started tracking that data.The number of long-term care facilities reporting outbreaks in Iowa stands at 10. The state reports 141 positive cases and 66 recoveries among residents and staff within those facilities. There have been 2,193 deaths in Iowa’s long-term care facilities.The Iowa Department of Public Health provides virus data in real time on this website. KCCI publishes a summary of the data each day at 10 a.m.
DES MOINES, Iowa —
The Iowa Department of Public Health reported 418 new positive COVID-19 tests and six additional virus deaths Sunday.
At 10 a.m., the health department reported 367,027 total positive tests, 320,056 total recoveries and 5,558 total deaths since the start of the pandemic. The health department reported 366,609 total positive tests and 5,552 total deaths 24 hours earlier.
State data shows 864,749 vaccine doses have been administered in the state, with 263,782 individuals completing vaccination. Find out how you can get vaccinated in Iowa here.
Iowa’s positivity rates continue to hover around 4%. The 14-day average is at 4%, while the 7-day average is now 3.9%. Health department data shows 4,143,401 COVID-19 tests have been administered in Iowa.
Virus hospitalizations continue to decline in Iowa. The number hospitalized with the virus dropped from 170 to 167. The are 35 patients in ICU and only 6 patients on ventilators, the lowest number the state has reported since it started tracking that data.
The number of long-term care facilities reporting outbreaks in Iowa stands at 10. The state reports 141 positive cases and 66 recoveries among residents and staff within those facilities. There have been 2,193 deaths in Iowa’s long-term care facilities.
The Iowa Department of Public Health provides virus data in real time on this website. KCCI publishes a summary of the data each day at 10 a.m.