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Andy Meek
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- The pace of the coronavirus vaccine rollout has been abysmally slow so far, such that federal officials have begun pressing states to just give out some COVID vaccine doses on a first-come, first-served basis.
- The slow pace of the vaccine rollout, as well as the very detailed regimen that health workers are supposed to follow in terms of the order of who can get vaccinated, means some vaccine doses are in danger of expiring on the shelf.
- So far, a little over 5 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in the US.
Where I live, in the state of Tennessee, 169,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine have been administered so far, which is equal to 2.48 doses of the vaccine administered for every 100 residents of the state. That's according to the Bloomberg vaccine tracker, and while it's nowhere near enough to make a difference in the pandemic yet, it's nevertheless a better rate than many other states are seeing -- like California, which has administered only 1.16 doses of coronavirus vaccine for every 100 residents of the state.
Overall, the US has administered a little over 5 million vaccine doses nationwide since vaccinations began a little less than a month ago. This comes as the nation set an all-time high for daily COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, when more than 3,770 Americans reportedly perished as a result of the virus, according to the COVID Tracking Project. This gives increased urgency to the task of vaccinating the nation, and for the latest look at how that's going, depending on which stats you look at, a little less than 30% of the vaccine doses the federal government has delivered to states have now been administered. And because of the somewhat glacial pace of the vaccine rollout, federal officials have been quietly encouraging states to give out more vaccine doses in such a way that creates a kind of loophole for people to get vaccinated early.
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