JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KY3) -Missouri will not receive as many COVID-19 vaccines as expected from Operation Warp Speed over the next few weeks.
State health leaders learned that Friday morning, just one day after announcing a new phase in Missouri’s vaccination plan.
“We thought we would get more vaccine every week,” said Dr. Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, said. “But this morning we learned that it was not going to happen. At present we get about 70 to 80 000 vaccinations per week. We thought we would get more than that, almost double. ‘
Dr. Williams says the state will only get a slight increase in vaccines every week. Only about three percent of Missourians have received the vaccine so far, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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