(Radio Iowa) – In a little over six weeks, more than 200-thousand Iowans have been vaccinated for COVID-19, but in a state of more than three-million residents, the waiting list is long. The state will enter the next phase of inoculations next week and Governor Kim Reynolds says a new Vaccine Dashboard is being added to the state’s coronavirus website — at coronavirus-dot-iowa-dot-gov.

While the two companies that are now distributing vaccine in Iowa require a main injection and then a booster either 21 or 28 days later, Reynolds says a third company’s vaccine is expected to gain F-D-A approval next week that’s a single-dose version. Demand for the COVID vaccines is high and many people are wondering how and when they can get their shot. Reynolds steers them to the same online Vaccine Dashboard.

The governor says the federal government is planning to boost the number of vaccines being shipped to all states by about 16-percent starting in February. In Iowa, that’s about 63-hundred more doses per week. Reynolds says the number of people hospitalized for treatment of COVID-19 in Iowa is down to around 400, which is far below the peak of 15-hundred back in November.