JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (KY3) -Missouri is not getting as many COVID-19 vaccines as Operation Warp Speed expected in the coming weeks.
State health leaders learned that Friday morning, just a day after announcing a new phase in the Missouri vaccination plan.
“We thought we would get more vaccines in our weekly allocations,” said Dr. Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. “But this morning we learned that this is not going to happen. So now we are getting about 70 to 80,000 vaccines a week. We thought we would get more than that, almost twice as much. “
Dr. Williams says the state will see only a slight increase in vaccines each week. Only about three percent of Missouri residents have received the vaccine so far, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control.
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