LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak says shipments of 46,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine that were delayed because of weather have now started arriving in the state.
Sisolak made the announcement on Twitter Monday.
Candice McDaniel, the health bureau chief of Nevada’s Bureau of Child, Family and Community Wellness, said officials would be working overtime this week to administer the delayed Moderna doses and this week’s regularly scheduled shipment.
Officials in southern Nevadan rescheduled appointments for people waiting on a second dose of the Moderna vaccine for this week.
The governor revealed on Twitter that state officials had been considering an offer to use private airplanes to retrieve the doses, which were delayed amid winter storms across the U.S. last week. Sisolak says the state ultimately did not need to use the private aircraft.
Based on its current inventory of both first and second doses of the vaccine, the Health District will be opening up limited first dose appointments at Cashman Center for those who are currently eligible to receive the vaccine.
The Cashman Center site will be open this week on Wednesday, February 24 through Saturday, February 27. Those currently eligible to receive the vaccine include people 65 years of age and older, health care workers, and those in public safety and security and frontline community support groups.