IOWA - Iowa will likely cross 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccines delivered to residents in the next couple of days.
The number represents nearly half the state's population.
Data from the New York Times shows Iowa ranks among the top 10 states in using its allotment of doses. Iowa ranks ever higher - 7th - for fully vaccinating residents.
The state says the recent manufacturing error of Johnson and Johnson vaccines will not affect the increase of doses headed to Iowa in the next week.
A Baltimore manufacturing plant mixed up ingredients while making a batch of the vaccine. Johnson and Johnson says the mixed-up vaccine batch was never finished or shipped.
The number of vaccines delivered to states, including Iowa, could fall in subsequent weeks as a result of the J & J manufacturing mistake.
The federal government still expect to have enough doses from Johnson & Johnson and the other two approved vaccines to meet President Biden’s commitment to provide enough vaccine to immunize every adult by the end of May.
The vaccine news comes as Iowa has been experiencing a rise in COVID-19 cases. Numbers from the New York Times Iowa's increase is bigger than the national average (32 percent for Iowa vs. 20 percent for the U.S.).
The state reports Iowa's positivity rate to be 4.7 percent, as of early Friday morning.
Another midwestern country, Michigan, leads the country in recent cases per capita.