Kansas ordered less than 1% of its vaccine allocation from the federal government for this week. The state health department's disclosure Friday came as its data showed that Kansas still had nearly 593,000 unused doses.
The state health department said that this week it ordered only 1,020 or 0.7% of its federal allocation of 147,660 vaccine doses. Its data showed that an average of 4,348 vaccine shots a day were administered during the seven days ending Friday to make it the lowest seven-day average since Jan. 21.
The department said 42.5% of the state's 2.9 million residents had received at least one vaccine shot as of Friday.
