IOWA - Iowa will likely pass one million people fully vaccinated for COVID-19 in the next few days or weeks.
There are nearly 883,000 who've reached that level as of Monday morning.
Numbers from the New York Times show Iowa tied for fourteenth in percentage of fully vaccinated people.
The state has been working to supply more Pfizer and Moderna two shot vaccines after delivery of the Johnson and Johnson single dose vaccine was suspended last week.
A decision nationally about whether to resume Johnson & Johnson vaccines should come this Friday, when a panel advising the Centers for Disease Control is scheduled to meet.
President Biden's Infectious disease advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared Sunday on the CNN program “State of the Union”, where he said he expected experts to recommend “some sort of either warning or restriction” on the use of the vaccine.
A total of more than two million vaccine shots have been given in Iowa. Numbers from the CDC show half of all American adults have received at least one dose.
The state's number of COVID-19 cases continues on a gradual downward slope. The seven- and fourteen-day positivity rates are both at about four-and-a-half percent in Iowa.
Data from the New York Times shows new cases of the virus to be down by 18 percent in the last fourteen days in the state. The Times places Iowa in a category where cases are lower and staying low.
Overall, data from the Times shows the country is averaging about 71,000 cases a day, about 16,000 more than a month ago.
Michigan is by far experiencing the worst outbreak of any state, accounting for ten percent of the country’s daily cases