Statewide Iowa — State health officials say COVID-19 vaccinations will start Monday, Dec 28th, for residents and staff of Iowa’s long-term care facilities, while several thousand Iowa health care workers have already gotten the first round of shots.
Kelly Garcia, director of the Iowa Department of Human Services, says the -next- phase of vaccinations will target Iowans 75 and older and front-line essential workers, including first responders, teachers and workers in food and ag-related manufacturing. Garcia says they’re laying out a third phase of recipients as well.
The first shipments of the Moderna vaccine began arriving in Iowa Monday of this week and Governor Kim Reynolds says they’re being distributed in all 99 counties. Already, more than 84-hundred health care workers have been inoculated against COVID-19 with the first vaccine round from Pfizer.
