Washington State s Third COVID-19 Curve Appears to Be Flattening chronline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chronline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published December 17. 2020 7:18PM
Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Lena H. Sun and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post
WASHINGTON State officials said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech s vaccine had been drastically cut for next week, sparking widespread confusion and conflicting statements from Pfizer and federal officials about who was to blame.
The reduction prompted concern in health departments across the country about whether Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration s vaccine accelerator, was capable of distributing doses quickly enough to meet the target of delivering first shots to 20 million people by year s end. A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal plans, said the revised estimates were the result of states requesting an expedited timeline for locking in their allocations for the following week moving the notification of how many doses they could order f