COVID-19 Update
March 15, 2021

IowaBio wants to provide our members useful information during the COVID-19 pandemic. This newsletter compiles information on state, federal and industry action to combat the virus and its impacts.

If your company is helping respond to COVID-19, IowaBio wants to know about it. Please, send any information about what your biotechnology company or organization is doing to help, to Jessica Hyland at Jessica@iowabio.org.

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Past IowaBio COVID-19 Update newsletters are now available at www.iowabio.org/COVID19 and can be found under the Industry News tab on the IowaBio website.

Iowa Update

Iowa will receive $2.694 Billion from the $1.9 trillion  COVID-19 relief bill signed into law last week. To see the breakdown for each state click here.

An Iowa City web developer created the @IAVaccineAlerts account on Twitter last week. The handle gives automatic updates on appointments from Hy-Vee, Walgreens and CVS as appointments become available. The account now has 17.3 thousand followers.

Key Statistics

Iowa
The overall number of vaccines administered is 1,105,700 an increase of 107,646 since Friday, with 317,542 receiving their first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine and 379,231 receiving their second dose. 29,680 have received the one-dose J&J vaccine.

To find vaccine providers in your county, click here or scroll to the bottom of the vaccine dashboard. If you need a vaccine appointment, vaccinate.iowa.gov has launched to help connect Iowans eligible for the vaccine with providers. Iowans 65 and older who have not yet gotten an appointment can call 211 for assistance. For vaccine eligibility information and timelines click here. For new vaccine allocation data overall and by county, click here.
 
Currently, on the state’s coronavirus dashboard  370,731 positive tests were reported, up 1,103 from our update Friday morning, with a total of 4,245,565 tests.
 
20 additional deaths were reported since our last update, bringing the total to 5,641 deaths.
 
The total 14 day rolling average positivity rate is 3.9% the past 7-day average is 3.8%.
 
The latest on hospitalizations, can be found here. There are currently 161 hospitalized patients—up 1 since yesterday-- with 42in the ICU, and 26 admitted in the last 24 hours.
 
US
Total Cases 29,229,162
Total Deaths 531,766
Total Vaccination Doses Administered 107,060,274
 
World
Total Cases 119,956,955
Total Deaths 2,655,280
 
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