Tennessee will receive around 40,000 âunexpectedâ additional doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine later this week, Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey said Monday.
âProbably the best news of the weekend was that we are getting an unexpected shipment of an additional 40,000 doses of Pfizer,â Piercey said during a conference call with reporters. âThat order had to be in today, and so we placed that. That should arrive either tomorrow or Wednesday.â
The state received 56,550 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last week, with those shipped directly to hospitals across the state. A total of 16,500 doses have been administered thus far. Tennessee also began receiving the first of 115,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine on Monday, with shipments continuing over the next week. In Northeast Tennessee, Carter County health officials received their first shipment of the vaccine on Monday and inoculated several
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