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States Sending Millions of COVID Vaccine Doses Back to Federal Government As Demand Drops - Newsweek
Jun 11, 2021 1 min, 42 secs

Mississippi will be sending their surplus over to Maine as states rush to use the doses before they expire.

Amid all this, the White House announced it planned to share 80 million doses globally by the end of June on top of the 500 million Pfizer doses they promised to donate to 92 lower-income countries and the African Union next year.

Oklahoma has 800,000 doses on shelves but is administering only 4,500 a day and has 27,000 Pfizer and Moderna doses that are set to expire at the end of the month.

Millions of Johnson & Johnson doses nationwide were set to expire this month before the government extended their dates by six weeks, but some leaders acknowledge it will be difficult to use them up even by then.

and the glaring gap in vaccinations and the inequity of vaccinations that we have globally," said Dr.

"At all costs, we need to make sure that those doses get to people who can use them." she said.

In North Carolina, $25 cash cards helped bring people to vaccine clinics, but even so, the state isn't ordering any new doses from the government for the second week in a row.

In New Mexico, the nation's biggest lottery grand prize, $5 million, halted a downward trend in vaccinations and may have even caused a slight improvement, officials said.

About one-quarter of the hundreds of people who responded to North Carolina's cash-card giveaway said it was key to their decision to get the shot that day.

"If states are able to prevent chains of transmission that would have otherwise landed people in the ICU on a ventilator, missing weeks of work, keeping their family out of school, if we can avoid a handful of those incidents, then these programs will have been worth it," Shah said.

Several states aren't ordering new vaccines from the government, including Alabama, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Utah, and Oklahoma.

Still, Shah said the nation's vaccine rollout is moving much more quickly than he expected, and he welcomed efforts to expand distribution to hard-pressed regions like Africa.

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