(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds says Iowa has gotten 160-thousand first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine so far, and about 106-thousand of them have already been administered, mostly to front-line health care workers. Reynolds says demand will continue to “vastly exceed supply” in Iowa for quite a while.

The plan calls for adding more essential workers to the vaccine mix starting early next month and the governor says it’s possible the state will be sent more doses of the vaccine, but there’s uncertainty with the change in administrations.

The next phase of recipients being added to the list next month will include people like teachers, grocery store employees, child care workers, workers in meat production facilities and more first responders and law enforcement.