The Biden administration announced a new partnership between the federal government and retail pharmacies on Tuesday, which will provide vaccines directly to selected pharmacies. This is a different program than the one that has been used to vaccinate residents and workers at long-term care facilities, and is intended to increase access to vaccines in a […]
Vaccines
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Vaccine dashboard added to state’s COVID-19 site as more Iowans become eligible for shots
The Iowa Department of Public Health added a new page containing vaccine information to its COVID-19 information site on Friday night, just before almost 20 percent of Iowa’s population became eligible for the vaccine on Monday. Starting Feb. 1, approximately 530,000 Iowans who are 65 and older, as well as 130,000 people in Tier 1 […]
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Letter to the editor: My COVID-19 vaccine story
By Katelyn Meyer, Coralville I received my first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 17. As an ICU nurse who has worked frequently with COVID-positive patients at UIHC, I was among the first several hundred employees vaccinated in the state of Iowa. I had worked the night before, so I finished giving report […]
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UI to offer free vaccine clinics in an effort to prevent spread of of measles, mumps and rubella
The University of Iowa will host a series of vaccine clinics across campus this week, offering students under the age of 25 a chance to receive a third dose of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine free of charge. Officials will conduct the clinics in an effort to prevent the spread of infection among […]
