The state of Illinois will be getting about half the doses of the Pfizer vaccine that it was expecting over the next two weeks, Gov. JB Pritzker said Wednesday.
Pritzker said he was disappointed to learn from the federal government that next week, nationwide shipments of the vaccine will only total 4.3 million doses.
Almost 8 million had been the original projection for next week nationwide.
And the following week: 8.8 million had been expected. Pritzker said the federal government says only 4.3 million will be shipped out.
“This development will likely cut our state’s projected Pfizer shipments this month by roughly half. The same is true across the rest of the nation,” the governor said.
“This does not affect vaccine shipments that already arrived at our strategic national stockpile on Monday.”
The latest Illinois case figures: more than 7,100 new coronavirus cases and 146 deaths.
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