States take back hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses held in federal long-term care program

Hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 vaccine doses are shifting to states after they weren't used by the federal program to vaccinate long-term care facility residents and staff. The doses had been set aside for a federal partnership between the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Walgreens and CVS, which were vaccinating people in facilities in most states. CNN has counted at least 266,675 doses in 10 states -- Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia. That is equal to about 8% of the number of people who have been administered at least one dose through the federal program. Three states that responded to CNN -- Alabama, Delaware and Hawaii -- said they had no reallocations from the care facility programs at the moment. Both Georgia and Maryland told CNN they intend to reallocate any excess doses but were unsure of how many they would transfer at the moment.

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