Credit Moderna
Doses of the second COVID-19 vaccine to be approved are now being distributed across Oklahoma.
The state received 66,200 doses of the Moderna vaccine on Monday. It doesn’t need to be kept nearly as cold during shipping as the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that arrived last week, and Moderna says it will remain stable at standard refrigerator temperatures up to 30 days.
Oklahoma Deputy Health Commissioner Keith Reed said that changes distribution plans a little bit.
"We’re going to send the Moderna vaccine pretty much all across the state to our county health department sites so that they can kind of serve as that hub and spoke for pushing Moderna out. You’re probably looking at in excess of 30 sites that are going to receive Moderna direct," Reed said.