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Colorado to receive nearly 17,000 fewer doses of COVID-19 vaccine than expected

Colorado will receive nearly 17,000 fewer doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in its next shipment, Gov. Jared Polis’ office said Thursday night.

Colorado had been expecting for an allocation of 56,550 does on Friday, but will receive only 39,780, a difference of 16,770, the governor’s office said in a statement.

“We learned this week that Operation Warp Speed leadership has made a decision that changes what we had expected to receive,” according to the statement.

Of the expected 39,780 doses, 25,740 will be transferred to the CDC Pharmacy Partnership Program to support on-site vaccination of skilled nursing facilities and the other 14,040 will be given to providers, the statement said.

“Currently, the CDC notifies the state on a week by week basis what we can expect for the upcoming week,” the statement read. “OWS is changing their approach so that we get the same allocation each week. If additional doses become available, OWS will distribute those additional doses periodically.”

Pfizer said Thursday night that it is not having any production issues with the vaccine and there have been no delayed shipments.

“This week, we successfully shipped all 2.9 million doses that we were asked to ship by the U.S. Government to the locations specified by them,” Pfizer said in a statement. “We have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse but, as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses.”

FORT COLLINS, COLORADO – NOVEMBER 14: Andrew Harmon, interim director of pharmacy at UCHealth Northern Colorado, holds up three of four vials containing the first rounds of the Covid-19 vaccines at UC Health Poudre Valley Hospital on December 14, 2020 in Fort Collins, Colorado. The first Covid-19 vaccines were administered in Colorado to frontline health care workers in Fort Collins and Colorado Springs today. Governor Jared Polis joined these nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists and other frontline workers in the cafeteria of hospital as one by one they got the vaccine. A total of twenty vaccines were administered to a variety of doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and others from Northern Colorado medical facilities. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post, Pool)
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