Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday said Kentucky may receive as many as five separate shipments of COVID-19 vaccines this month alone. In total, the state expects at least 38,000 Pfizer doses and 109,000 Moderna doses in December.
Beshear said he expects the Pfizer vaccine doses the week of Dec. 13-19. That will be followed by 76,700 Moderna doses the week of Dec. 20-26 and another 33,800 the week of Dec. 27-31.
All of the doses in December will be reserved for long-term care facilities and frontline health care workers.
Each of these doses will go to a different Kentuckian; they are the initial shots that will be followed up with a booster vaccine about three weeks later. Both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines require an initial dose and a booster dose.
Beshear said one of the benefits of the Moderna vaccine is it can be broken up into groups of 100 doses, which means the state has more flexibility to distribute that allocation to more facilities across the state.
Beshear expects more Pfizer allocations to be announced at a later date, possibly before the end of the month.
While these numbers are the state’s best estimate at this time based on available information from the federal government, they are subject to change, Beshear said.
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