Kansas to receive fewer COVID-19 vaccine doses than expected
Kansas will likely be getting almost 37% fewer Pfizer vaccine doses than initially promised in its next shipment in the next week, a spokesperson from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.
Instead of the approximately 28,000 doses from Pfizer the state said it would receive, that number has dropped to 17,550 doses.
The other type of vaccine, from Moderna, is still expected to arrive with 49,000 doses next week. This will be the first shipment from Moderna.
The reduced number of already scarce vaccine doses is likely to further limit the reach of vaccinations. One will need two, not one, doses of the vaccine, with the second dose three to four weeks after the first.