A health department official said Monday that Indiana has acquired the vast majority of COVID-19 vaccines allocated for Hoosiers by the federal government.
“Indiana has pulled down nearly 98 percent of its vaccine allocation,” said Megan Wade-Taxter, a spokesperson for Indiana’s State Department of Health.
“Remaining doses are earmarked for businesses, higher education, local health department clinics and newly onboarded providers that are set to start vaccinating in the coming days. We are arranging for those doses to ship to the sites closer to their vaccination event dates,” she said.
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The spokesperson was responding to a report that health authorities were moving slowly to acquire the vaccines set aside for Indiana’s residents.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that several states were delaying hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses available to them.
About 1.4 million Hoosiers have been vaccinated so far, according to data released by the health department on Monday. They represent about a quarter of eligible recipients.
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