Skip to content

Condition: Post with Page_List

Listen
Search
Please enter at least 3 characters.

Latest Stories

KYW Medical Report: Location and the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine

Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped
OLIVE BRANCH, MISSISSIPPI - DECEMBER 20: Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped
Paul Sancya - Pool/Getty Images

KYW Newsradio's Medical Reports are sponsored by Independence Blue Cross.

By Dr. Brian McDonough, Medical Editor


PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Location, location, location. Certain states might be getting vaccines for COVID-19 faster than others.

It has been quite apparent as health care workers and nursing home residents around the country have been receiving, and many still await, the first syringes of COVID-19 vaccine.

The state you live has much to do with that dose arriving. In fact, some people who should be first in line for the vaccine may end up getting vaccinated after people in other states who are deemed lower priority.

Here is the issue: the vaccine is allocated according to the number of adults in each state, which doesn't correlate to the number of high-risk people who live there.

Things will equal out over time as more vaccines are available, but it would seem to make sense that computer codes could be built to figure this out and correct it relatively quickly.