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Smaller hospitals do not have the facilities or equipment to store Pfizer vaccine in ultracold freezers. Author: Rose McBride Updated: 6:13 PM EST December 11, 2020
CARROLL COUNTY, Ky. Kentucky should be able to start giving health care workers the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine next week.
The state will receive 38,025 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Eleven hospitals will receive doses including three in Louisville.
But many hospitals in the area, including hospitals in rural areas, are not going to get any of those first doses.
Only one county in the state is out of the red zone for COVID-19 cases, with some rural areas having higher incidence rates than Jefferson County. Still, vaccine allocation is not about need it’s about resources.