Statewide Iowa — Iowa Department of Human Services officials are trying a variety of approaches to encourage more employees at its six facilities to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Reports show 36-percent of employees at D-H-S offices declined the shot as of May 7th. That’s the same percent that declined it five weeks before. Director Kelly Garcia says they’ve hosted town halls with medical experts and union representatives to address vaccine concerns.
Garcia says she did her best to address employee concerns directly at a recent town hall at Woodward Resource Center.
Recent polls have shown between 20 and 25 percent of Americans say they will not get the shot. The state health department’s coronavirus website shows more than one-point-two million Iowans are fully vaccinated.
