Pritzker: State to receive less vaccinations next few weeks

Posted on December 16, 2020
Gov. JB Pritzker during his coronavirus briefing Wednesday in Chicago. (Neil Doyle/WJBC)

 

By Neil Doyle

CHICAGO – Gov. JB Pritzker announced that Illinois, as well as the rest of the nation, will receive approximately half of the doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer next week.

Around 8 million doses were to be shipped across the country, but that has been cut to around 4.3 million. Pritzker said the state was informed Wednesday morning by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“This development will likely cut our state’s projected Pfizer shipments this month by roughly half, and the same is true across the rest of the nation,” said Pritzker. “This does not affect vaccine shipments that already arrived at our strategic national stockpile on Monday, as part of our initlal 109,000 doses this week.”

The first doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine were administered Tuesday to health care workers across the state.

Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]

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