(Radio Iowa) [updated] – The one-year anniversary of the first cases of COVID-19 being reported in the state was this past Monday and Governor Kim Reynolds says Iowa is about to hit another, more positive milestone. It’s projected the one-millionth Iowan will be vaccinated against the virus sometime in the next few days.

Getting scheduled for an appointment is still a challenge, so the governor says Iowans 65 and older can now call 2-1-1 to talk with a “vaccine navigator” to get scheduled for a shot.

Reynolds says almost 94-percent of Iowans who are 65 and older have gotten at least their first dose of a vaccine. Next week, nearly 95-thousand first doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are headed to Iowa. State officials say Iowa could get four-thousand doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine as well.

Census data indicates there are about two-point-one MILLION adults in the state. More than 18-thousand Iowans have received the new, single dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Reynolds says they are among the 160-thousand Iowans who work in food processing, ag production and manufacturing companies or who live in communal settings that are on the state’s initial list for the Johnson and Johnson shots.

In the past week, 51 Iowa companies have hosted mass vaccination clinics for employees. A coffin filled with flowers and wrapped with an Iowa flag was carried into the state capitol on Tuesday as part of a memorial service for the more-than 55-hundred Iowans who’ve died from COVID-19 in the past year.