IOWA - Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds is expecting to find out from the White House Tuesday how many COVID-19 vaccine doses will be coming to the state in the upcoming weeks.
Last week, she said the state would open up vaccines to all people 16 and older on April 5th if projected numbers hold.
The state's expecting 200,000 doses starting next Monday, which could ramp up to 300,000 in April.
The doses are coming as Iowa continues to have a low level of COVID-19 infections, with a positivity rate at or below four percent for the past several weeks.
Data from the New York Times shows Iowa as one of the state's where new cases are lower and staying low. Over the past week, there has been an average of 420 cases per day, a decrease of 9 percent from the average two weeks earlier.
Neighboring Minnesota has seen a recent spike in cases that the state says is being driven by new variants of the virus.
Nationally, case numbers have leveled off nationally at around 55,000 a day, with continued progress in some states offset by problems in Michigan and on the East Coast.