Florida COVID vaccine supply remains near 600k doses for next week
The federal supply of COVID-19 vaccines remains near 600,000 doses for next week.
Florida’s allotment for the week of May 10 combining the single dose Johnson & Johnson with the initial dose of the both the two-dose Moderna and Pfizer vaccines comes to 591,430, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released Wednesday. The combined total for this week was 597,330.
The Pfizer supply remains the same week over week with 314,730 initial doses while the Moderna supply increases slightly to 239,700. That supply has been roughly the same now for a month. The limited J&J supply will fall to 37,000, down from 48,100 this week.
An additional 554,430 combined second doses of Pfizer and Moderna have also been allotted, which will be administered 3-4 weeks after the first shot, since both require two shots to reach maximum effectiveness against COVID-19.
The process is the federal government announces potential supply on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, the states make their orders on Thursdays and shipments arrive the following Monday-Wednesday in general.
The state allotment is being augmented by the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, which delivers directly to Publix, Walmart, Winn-Dixie, CVS and Walgreens locations. In addition, the federal government is the source for the state’s four Federal Emergency Management Agency sites set up for mass-vaccination in Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami.
The entire country now allows anyone 18 and older to receive any of the three vaccines, and those 16 and older to get the Pfizer option since that brand has been approved for that younger age group. A ruling on the Pfizer vaccine for those 12 and older is expected by next week, according to The Associated Press.
The state initially limited vaccines to those 65 and older before lowering it to 60 and up on March 15, 50 and up on March 22, 40 and up on March 29 and all adults on April 5.
With the new allotment, the state supply continues to remain above 500,000 weekly doses. In January, the state was only receiving about 265,000 initial doses a week.
To date, Florida has received or is slated to receive a total of 16,632,620 doses between Pfizer and Moderna in addition to the 781,500 J&J doses. That’s enough to vaccinate 9,097,810 people. The state has a population of 21.5 million.
It has doled them out to hospital systems, county health departments, state-run drive-throughs and the Publix partnership among other options.
Statewide, 9,037,042 people have received at least one vaccination shot, including 6,533,066 who have completed their shot regimen, whether it’s the two-dose Pfizer or Moderna option or the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The count is a snapshot through Tuesday, based on the report released Wednesday.
Of those who have received at least the first dose, 3,713,434 are over the age of 65.
A detailed breakdown of who has been vaccinated so far can be found here.
As far as where the doses of the state allocation of vaccines are going, the state maintains information by county and by vaccine type where it intends to ship its allotment. State Department of Health supply numbers, though, are significantly less than the numbers signified by the federal allotment.
For the week of May 2, the state DOH announced it will allocate 305,931 doses (and not the 597,330 the federal government announced was available that week) among the counties and directly to some pharmacies.
Statewide, Walgreens and CVS pharmacies will each receive 50,310 Pfizer doses and Publix pharmacies will receive 55,000 of the state’s Moderna doses; the retail pharmacy allocations are the same each week. The state’s list does not include doses the federal government will distribute directly through its retail partners including Publix, Walmart, Winn-Dixie and CVS.
The state has yet to announce its distribution plans for the week of May 9.
