MEMPHIS, Tenn. More than 2,400 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in Tennessee’s most populous county went to waste over the past month while local officials sat on tens of thousands of shots that they thought had already gone into arms, the state’s top health official announced Tuesday.
The finding comes after the Department of Health launched an investigation over the weekend into a report that recent winter storms caused 1,000 doses to be tossed in Shelby County, which encompasses Memphis.
But Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey on Tuesday revealed that the problems were far more widespread. She said issues dating back to Feb. 3 included multiple incidents of spoiled doses, an excessive vaccine inventory, insufficient record-keeping and a lack of a formal process for managing soon-to-expire vaccines. A federal investigation is also expected.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, more than twice the number of people moved to Connecticut compared to the year before. According to Gov. Ned Lamont and some of the state’s business leaders, that influx has provided a much needed economic shot-in-the-arm. “Who would have thought it?” Lamont said Tuesday during a press conference at the headquarters of Aquiline Drones in Hartford. “Last year was one of our biggest years in terms of starting up.
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