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Federal vaccine doses not included in Washington state count May 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this May 2, 2021, file photo, Stephanie Birman, right, a Seattle Sounders season ticket holder, wears a Sounders mask, jersey and earrings as she gets the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in a concourse at Lumen Field prior to an MLS soccer match. Ted S. Warren/AP SEATTLE (AP) — Thousands of COVID-19 vaccinations from two federal health care providers have not been counted in official Washington state vaccination statistics, complicating the state's pandemic response, offi...

Due to a bureaucratic lapse, as well as legal and technical challenges, thousands of shots from the Defense Department and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have not been counted in state vaccination statistics.

pandemic, and now as vaccines become more widely available, we are reporting on how our local schools, businesses and communities are returning to a more "normal" future. There's never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces. Please support our work by subscribing today. CVS, Walgreens have wasted more vaccine doses than most states combined This June 4, 2014, file photo shows a Walgreens retail store in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) In this Dec. 4, 2017, file photo, the CVS Health logo appears above a trading post on th...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 182,874 wasted doses as of late March. Of those, CVS was responsible for nearly half, and Walgreens for 21%.

CVS, Walgreens have wasted more vaccine doses than most states combined It’s not completely clear from the CDC data why the two chains wasted so much more vaccine than states and federal agencies. Some critics have pointed to poor planning early in the rollout, when the Trump administration leaned heavily on CVS and Walgreens to vaccinate residents and staff members of long-term care facilities. Written By: Joshua Eaton and Rachana Pradhan / Kaiser Health News | 11:45 am, May 4, 2021 × People walk by a CVS Pharmacy store in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New ...