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Warren County will begin to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine next week, and begin to distribute to high-risk healthcare providers and long-term care staff and residents as soon as possible. Warren County Health Services Director Jodene DeVault tells KNIA News the county will receive an initial 700 doses of the vaccine.

“We are looking to give it to high-risk healthcare providers first, those people working in clinics, hospitals, or EMS, they are seeing people who are ill all the time. They would be on our priority list, and since we have a limited number of vaccinations that is the way we hope to do it, and we think that is consistent with what the CDC and the State of Iowa have in mind.”

DeVault also said Warren County Health Services is partnering with MercyOne, UnityPoint Clinics, and Medicap Pharmacy to begin administering the vaccine, and will receive weekly shipments. For more information, tune in to today’s Let’s Talk Indianola.