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After last weekâs admission that providers using Moderna vaccine intended for second doses had administered it as first doses, the Pennsylvania Department of Health will soon implement an improved tracking system, an official told LNP | LancasterOnline on Tuesday.
State health officials do not yet know the scope of the problem, which only affected providers receiving Modernaâs COVID-19 vaccine. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was not impacted.
Officials had relied on local vaccine providers to track and report their shipments, Barry Ciccocioppo, a health department spokesman said.
Untangling what went wrong has been a challenge, as the health department doesnât exactly know.
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State officials said they have surpassed an “important milestone” in the mission to vaccinate long-term care residents in Pennsylvania. As of last week, Walgreens has conducted first-dose clinics in nearly 100 locations, while CVS Health has conducted both first- and second-dose clinics at all of its participating skilled nursing facilities.
The holdup could impact appointments to receive a vaccine, the state Health Department said.
âItâs too early to know which vaccine providers are being affected by these weather-related delays,â acting Health Secretary Alison Beam said.
âWe know that the federal government is working with manufacturers, and we know that local vaccine providers will be ready when the shipments do get through,â Beam said. âUnfortunately, weather delays will impact the ability to get vaccine into arms, and providers are working to reschedule appointments as necessary.â
Pennsylvania was allocated 326,850 vaccine doses for the week ending Saturday, a number that was 12,000 higher than the previous week, the Gov. Tom Wolf administration said.