37 Percent of Iowa's Adult Population Fully Vaccinated for COVID-19

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IOWA - Almost thirty-seven percent of Iowa's adult population has been fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

Numbers from the Iowa Department of Public Health show another nineteen percent have had the first dose of Pfizer or Moderna.

Delivery of Johnson & Johnson vaccines to Iowa is expected to drop this week, and not pick up again until next month.

Governor Kim Reynolds says she was not told why the J & J supply was dropping, but 15 million doses of the company's vaccine were ruined by a manufacturing mix-up.

Workers at a plant in Baltimore mixed up the ingredients of the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines, leading to the discarding of the 15 million doses.

Johnson & Johnson also has reported that a batch of its key vaccine ingredient didn't meet quality control standards at a Baltimore facility.

J & J's manufacturing partner, Emergent BioSolutions, runs the Baltimore plant where the mix-up occurred.

Johnson & Johnson still expects to deliver nearly 100 million single-shot doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to the U.S. government by the end of May.

J & J doses represent a small fraction (0.04 percent) of the vaccines given to people in Iowa.

Nationally, almost 73 million people have been fully vaccinated for the virus.

The seven and fourteen day positivity rates for COVID-19 infections in Iowa are both 4.9 percent, which is a level that hasn't fluctuated much in recent weeks.

There are virus outbreaks at three long term care centers with more than half of those cases reported at the Urbandale Health Care Center.

About 40 percent of the COVID-19 deaths in the state are from long term care centers.

Hospitalizations have risen slightly (220 Monday morning) after reaching a low (159) in mid-March.


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