{"id":30046,"date":"2020-12-17T16:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T00:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30046"},"modified":"2020-12-17T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T00:56:28","slug":"some-confusion-as-the-vaccine-rolls-out-governors-say-the-cdc-is-cutting-vaccine-allocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30046","title":{"rendered":"Some confusion as the vaccine rolls out&#8230;Governors say the CDC is cutting vaccine allocations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At\u00a0least four state governors were told by the federal government to expect fewer coronavirus vaccine doses next week than had been originally planned.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ibczptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqygdddmg_xbvdrrhvhtdbgsvpbsjv.html?a=&amp;b=35645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ibczptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqygdddmg_xbvdrrhvhtdbgsvpbsjv.html?a%3D%26b%3D35645&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608333392435000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEsA7ZrHYA1WYNPhQ6USQrPkI-9Gw\">Jay Inslee<\/a>\u00a0(D) said in a tweet that he was told his state\u2019s allocation of the new vaccine, produced by Pfizer and the German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, would be slashed by 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is disruptive and frustrating. We need accurate, predictable numbers to plan and ensure on-the-ground success,\u201d Inslee wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>However, a\u00a0spokeswoman at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) denied that any allocation plans had changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReports that jurisdictions\u2019 allocations are being reduced are incorrect. As was done with the initial shipments of Pfizer vaccine, jurisdictions will receive vaccine at different sites over several days. This eases the burden on the jurisdictions and spreads the workload across multiple days,\u201d the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>The news also comes after Pfizer put out a statement earlier on Thursday saying that there has been no production issues and that the company had already delivered 2.9 million doses for the first wave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse but, as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses,\u201d the drugmaker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At\u00a0least four state governors were told&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30047,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30046\/revisions\/30047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}