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February 10, 2021
Maryland's health chief on Wednesday rejected a request from local health officials to prioritize their requests for COVID-19 vaccines, saying that the state doesn't have enough doses to do so.
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In a letter to the leaders of 22 of Maryland's 24 jurisdictions, acting Health Secretary Dennis R. Schrader said, "recently local health departments collectively submitted requests for more than 94,000 doses, a collective request far exceeding the total allocation the state receives from the federal administration."
"Certain individual jurisdictions have requested as many as 20,000 vaccines in a single week alone — a request that would be impossible to fulfill given our allocation from the federal administration," he added.