The White House has been rolling out a flurry of steps to try to speed the vaccination process in the early days, and we got another on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The administration announced that it will begin providing COVID-19 vaccines directly to pharmacies around the country in an effort to expand access.<\/p>\n
The vaccines will be available in 6,500 pharmacies to start with, said\u00a0Jeff Zients<\/a>, the White House coronavirus response coordinator. Supplies will be limited at first, with 1 million vaccine doses per week given to pharmacies starting Feb. 11.<\/p>\n In addition, the administration is increasing by 5 percent the vaccine doses given to states each week, to 10.5 million per week. That is on top of a 16 percent increase announced last week.<\/p>\n Caveats<\/em>: Still, Zients was careful to temper expectations that far from everyone will be able to walk into a CVS for a vaccine in the near future.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will be limited when it begins next week,\u201d he said. Some pharmacies \u201cmay have very limited supply,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n