Vaccine Distribution Tracker: How Many Doses Can Your State Expect? - The New York Times

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First doses allocated

2.9 million

U.S. population
331 million

0.9% of total population

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data.·Note: The federal agencies include the Defense Department, Department of Veterans Affairs, Indian Health Service, State Department and Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The federal government said Wednesday that 5.9 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — enough to inoculate more than 2.9 million people — had been set aside mainly for states and territories to start protecting medical workers and nursing home residents against the coronavirus.

Delivery vans and UPS planes fanned out across the country this week carrying the first precious doses. The federal government has not provided data on how many Pfizer doses have arrived in their intended locations, or about how many people have received shots. The development, study and approval of the vaccine took place in record time, but also was only the first step in a long process toward ending the pandemic. The vaccination campaign is the most ambitious in American history, and producing enough doses, sending them to the right places and convincing enough people to take them promises to be a long and complicated mobilization. This first wave of shipments will vaccinate less than 1 percent of the nation’s population and will cover only a fraction of the 21 million health care workers and three million long-term care facility residents who are up first.

“I feel like the first wave is going to be the easy one – sending it to hospitals,” said Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, a nonprofit that represents public health officials who handle vaccines. “It’s just going to get harder. You’re either going to get a lot more supply and have to figure that out, or you’re not going to have enough supply and have to figure that out.”

Regulators could approve a second vaccine, developed by Moderna, in the coming days.

The Pfizer vaccine requires a two-dose regimen, taken about three weeks apart. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, states and a group of federal agencies have been allotted more than 2.9 million first doses, followed closely by another 2.9 million. Each state was granted an amount of the vaccine roughly in proportion to their population. Chicago, New York City and Philadelphia have been allocated doses separately from their states. And some states, like Alaska, North Dakota and Utah, will receive a supplement for tribal governments that have elected to receive their vaccines through the state, rather than through the federal Indian Health Service.

Doses allocated to states, territories and other jurisdictions

California	327,600	327,600
Texas	224,250	224,250
Florida	179,400	179,400
New York	169,650	169,650
New York City	73,125	73,125
Rest of state	96,525	96,525
Federal agencies	156,000	142,350
Pennsylvania	111,150	111,150
Philadelphia	13,650	13,650
Rest of state	97,500	97,500
Illinois	109,200	109,200
Chicago	23,400	23,400
Rest of state	85,800	85,800
Ohio	98,475	98,475
North Carolina	85,800	85,800
Georgia	84,825	84,825

Note: American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands will receive their full allocations of doses at once.

The work to distribute the vaccine comes at one of the darkest points of the pandemic. More than 300,000 people in the United States have died after contracting the virus. Nearly 2,500 deaths are being announced each day, the most of any point in the pandemic. And reports of new cases remain near record levels, with more than 200,000 on average each day.

Some states have begun to publish data on the Pfizer doses they have received and administered, but there is not yet a consistent method for them to publicly report how many doses they have received and administered.

The numbers above reflect a national rollout of first doses that began earlier this week — the first step toward protecting Americans from a virus that continues to devastate the country.

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