States scale back vaccine orders as interest in shots wanes

FILE - In this May 6, 2021, file photo, Kendria Brown, a nurse with DC health, vaccinates a woman with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at The REACH at the Kennedy Center in Washington. From South Carolina to Washington, states are requesting the Biden administration send them only a fraction of what's been allocated to them.

More than 150 million Americans — about 57% of the adult population — have received at least one dose of vaccine, but government leaders from the Biden administration down to the city and county level are doing everything they can to persuade the rest of the country to get inoculated. In another sign of the burgeoning national surplus, Biden announced last week that his administrationof AstraZeneca doses with the world once it clears safety reviews.

Melaney Arnold, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Public Health, said the state has five weeks’ worth of doses on hand. Last week, state officials for the first time requested fewer doses than allotted because of declining demand. The state plans to request just 9% of its allotted doses for everywhere but Chicago for next week.

Not everyone is dialing back. Maryland and Colorado are still ordering their full amount. So is New York City. The average number of daily shots in the nation’s largest city has dropped about 40% since peaking at more than 95,000 in mid-April, but city officials want a steady supply of doses to create more shots at doctor’s offices, neighborhood pharmacies and other small providers, hoping to appeal to people who have skipped mass vaccination sites.

“Staggering,” AP? You could just give us a number and save the editorializing.

Do them we can and should share with our neighbors! Set up vaccination booths on the Mexican border and start vaccinating anyone. Mexican and American.

Well it’s because anyone who wanted a vaccine can get one at this point and has.

Make vaccines required in the US.

Idiot America strikes again. The only American Exceptionalism is the continual lowering of the bar the level of stupidity people achieve in the good ol’ USA

Send them to countries that need them, this isn’t hard decision making

Send them to India.

And the doses we have expire in July or August. Think of all those shots and $$ lost.

It’s good to have stockpiles of all essential goods especially medicines as the world witnessed in 2020..

Why not exporting some of the stockpile?

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