The state plans to begin vaccinating teachers and school staff next week with the Johnson & Johnson single-dose COVID-19 vaccine under a plan announced Wednesday by Gov. Tom Wolf.
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State officials realized last weekend that an unknown number of second doses of Moderna vaccine were administered as first doses, turning an already tumultuous vaccine rollout even further on its head.
Barry Ciccocioppo, COVID-19 press secretary for the Department of Health, said Thursday that communication from the department needs to be clearer regarding which vaccines are first doses and which are second doses, and said that pharmacies that misadministered doses shouldn t bear all the blame. We re not saying necessarily that it was the pharmacies who made a mistake, Ciccocioppo said. We re not trying to place blame on anyone.
Ciccocioppo said that the problem became evident when there was a much higher amount of second doses being requested from providers than what would be allocated by the federal government. The misadministration of doses has been happening over the past few weeks, he said
Up to 115,000 Pennsylvanians could wait longer for doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine because of a second-dose shortfall that developed during the last month, state Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam said Wednesday.
Beam said âa perfect stormâ of providers eager to quickly vaccinate as many people as possible and a lack of clear Department of Health direction created a shortage of second-dose Moderna vaccines.
Providers eager to meet pent-up demand âinadvertentlyâ used second doses as first doses, Beam said. The department failed to make clear its desire for quicker vaccinations did not mean using second doses as first doses, department spokesman Barry Ciccocioppo said. Beam said inconsistent allocations of doses and confusion about vaccine deliveries also contributed to the shortfall in second doses.