The participating national pharmacy partners and independent pharmacy networks represent more than 40,000 pharmacy locations and is a key component of the administration’s national strategy to expand access to vaccines.<br />
States, Tribes, and territories will receive a 5 percent supply increase this week, and Americans will soon have easier access to vaccinations through local pharmacies
As the U.S. surpasses 26 million COVID-19 infections, President Biden took additional steps today to implement his comprehensive National Strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. These steps include increasing the vaccine supply to states, Tribes, and territories and increasing funding to jurisdictions to help turn vaccines into vaccinations. And, the President announced that starting next week, the first phase of the federal pharmacy program will launch and select pharmacies nationwide will start offering vaccinations for their communities.
Jan. 15, 2021 | MacIver News Service
If the State of Wisconsin has received 373,100 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, why have only 176,165 been administered?
That was one of many questions the Assembly Committee on Health hoped to answer during an all-day public hearing on Thursday.
Lisa Olson, Assistant Deputy Security for the Wisconsin Department of Health Service (DHS), told committee members that the federal government is at fault. There are 1,200 vaccine providers in Wisconsin, and every week they ask DHS to send more doses than the state has on hand.
“We are not receiving enough [doses] to keep up with demand,” she said.
We have administered just a fraction of the 25 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that were delivered to state and federal agencies since they were approved in December...