The 3% Quandry

According to The News Journal, the state of Delaware has been allocated  some 520,000 vaccines, but as of October 23, the Blue Hen state has only been shipped 15,700 vaccines — 3 percent of our allocation. The number of vaccines Delaware has been shipped is “less than Wyoming or Washington, D.C., whose populations are less than Delaware’s,” writes TNJ.

Rattay (Karyl Thomas Rattay, MD, MS, is the Director of the Delaware Division of Public Health) said she did not have a good understanding about why Delaware has less at this point but is trying to find out. She said it has been a challenge finding out when doses will arrive in the state.

In a meeting Friday with CDC officials, Rattay said she and her counterparts in other states “very loudly told the CDC … that this is an issue with us. That they need to help so that we know when shipments have been received by the physicians or whomever is going to be receiving it.”