How many Covid vaccines will each US state have?

Pfizer is set to receive emergency authorisation from the FDA

Emergency authorisation for one, or multiple, coronavirus vaccines by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on the horizon, which will then launch the largest distribution initiative in US history to get all Americans vaccinated.

The vaccines that will likely be available to the public in the near future – Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca – will have a specific allotment of doses available for the first wave of distribution. It will be up to the states on how they distribute their vaccine doses, but the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) initial guidance recommends for healthcare professionals and long-term care facility residents to receive the jab first.

Determining how much to distribute to each state, and then who will receive the vaccinations, will be the next challenge for officials during the pandemic.

The Trump administration created Operation Warp Speed earlier this year to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of a coronavirus vaccine to states.

Operation Warp Speed anticipated about 40 million vaccine doses will be divided out by the end of the year between Pfizer and Moderna. Initially, 6.4 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine will be made available to distribute once the company receives emergency authorisation.

States were asked to request how many initial doses they would need from Pfizer and Operation Warp Speed by Friday (December 11) based on their population and those who are in Phase 1a of vaccine allocation in the state: healthcare professionals.

Then, following the first round of distribution, Operation Warp Speed will ask companies how many doses they have available each week. States are then required to request how many they need to the federal agency by Saturday of that week, and the new vaccine doses will ship out every Monday morning, according to USA Today.

Operation Warp Speed created a software system called Tiberius that states can use to request and track their coronavirus vaccine doses. The software system was created based on what the CDC uses to track vaccines given to children across America.

So how many initial doses will each state receive? Most states have revealed how they anticipate once the companies receive emergency authorisation: 

• Alabama will receive 40,950 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, according to the state’s health department. The allotment was only 37 per cent of what the state initially expected to receive.
• Alaska anticipated about 34,000 doses in the next two weeks of a combination of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
• Arizona officials said the state will receive 383,750 doses in the initial batch, some from Pfizer on 15 December and the rest from Moderna on 20 December.
• Arkansas will receive about 50,000 doses from Pfizer during the allotment.
• California will receive about 327,000 initial doses from Pfizer mid-December, Governor Gavin Newsom says. But the governor said the state expected an additional 2 million doses by the end of the year, which will come from a combination of Moderna and Pfizer.
• Colorado anticipated 46,800 doses of the Pfizer vaccine during the initial distribution period.
• Connecticut expected about 31,000 doses from Pfizer as early as 14 December. An additional 94,000 doses could come on 21 December, which would be a combination of both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
• Delaware will receive 8,575 doses of Pfizer and 8,350 doses of Moderna in the first round of distribution.
• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the state could receive 1 to 2 million initial doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year.
• Hawaii expected 4,875 doses of the Pfizer vaccine during the first shipment. In total, the state anticipated about 80,000 doses in December.
• Idaho Governor Brad Little said 13,650 doses of the Pfizer vaccine should arrive in the next week.
• Illinois expected about 109,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine initially.
• Iowa officials anticipated 172,000 doses total in the month of December from Pfizer and Moderna.
• Kansas officials said the state will receive 23,750 doses from Pfizer in first shipment mid-December and a total of 150,000 doses by the end of the month.
• Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said the state will receive 38,025 doses from Pfizer as early as next week. Additionally, the state expected 110,500 doses from Moderna.
• Louisiana expected 39,000 doses from Pfizer first and then an additional 40,000 in the week following the first shipment.
• Maine will receive about 12,685 doses.
• Maryland will receive 50,700 doses from Pfizer and an additional 104,300 from Moderna.
• Massachusetts was allocated 59,475 doses from Pfizer in first round and expected 300,000 doses total by end of December.
• Minnesota officials said first shipment of vaccine will involve 46,800 doses from Pfizer. The state expected 183,400 doses by the end of the year.
• Mississippi asked to receive about 25,000 doses from Pfizer in first shipment.
• Missouri anticipated 51,000 doses initially from Pfizer and nearly 340,000 doses between Pfizer and Moderna by end of December.
• Montana could receive about 9,750 doses from Pfizer in mid-December.
• Nebraska will receive 15,600 vaccine doses from Pfizer in initial shipment and about 100,000 doses total by end of the year.
• Nevada was allocated 164,150 doses of the vaccine by end of December.
• New Hampshire anticipated about 10,000 to 15,000 doses from Pfizer and 15,000 to 24,000 from Moderna, Governor Chris Sununu said.
• New Jersey expected 76,000 doses initially from Pfizer and about 300,000 to 500,000 doses by the end of the year.
• New Mexico will receive 17,500 initial doses from Pfizer.
• New York was allocated 170,000 doses from Pfizer in first shipment, Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
• North Carolina will receive 85,000 doses from Pfizer in first shipment.
• North Dakota officials estimated they will receive 20,500 Pfizer doses and 15,500 Moderna doses.
• Ohio anticipated 98,000 Pfizer doses by 15 December, Governor Mike DeWine said.
• Oklahoma will receive 33,000 doses from Pfizer initially.
• Oregon officials estimated the state would receive more than 147,000 Pfizer and Moderna doses by 22 December and another 120,000 doses by 29 December.
• Rhode Island will receive 29,000 doses by Christmas.
• South Carolina anticipated about 200,000 to 300,000 vaccine doses by end of 2020.
• South Dakota will receive 7,800 doses from Pfizer in first shipment.
• Tennessee was allocated 56,550 doses from Pfizer.
• Texas would receive 1.4 million doses in the month of December, Governor Greg Abbott said.
• Vermont anticipated 6,000 doses from Pfizer in first week.
• Virginia was allocated 72,150 doses from Pfizer and anticipated about 480,000 doses total by the end of 2020.
• Washington will receive 62,400 doses from Pfizer and a total of 219,000 from the company through December.
• West Virginia will receive 16,000 doses from Pfizer in first shipment.
• Wisconsin was allocated 49,735 doses from Pfizer and 16,000 doses from Moderna in first two shipments.
• Wyoming could receive 5,000 doses from Pfizer initially.