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Gov. Sisolak sends letter about vaccine allocation for Nevada

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Posted at 10:58 AM, Jan 25, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-25 14:04:03-05

CARSON CITY (KTNV) — Today, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak wrote a letter to acting Health and Human Services Secretary Norris Cochran regarding the State’s federal allocation of the COVID-19 vaccine. According to publicly available federal data, Nevada has received the second-lowest number of vaccine doses per capita among all U.S. states so far.

“As Governor, I have directed every government resource to focus on getting shots into the arms of Nevadans – we have great State and local partnerships that could drastically scale up the number of vaccines that could be administered per day. We need the doses to match that,” the Governor wrote. “We need our fair share of vaccine doses to stand up and sustain successful vaccination efforts to reach Nevadans in an equitable fashion. Through this letter I am asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to look into why Nevada is so low on the allocation list, and more important, to find ways to increase our allocation both immediately and for the long term.”

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The governor is seeking additional clarification from the federal government as to population numbers being used to calculate the State’s pro rata allocation.

READ THE LETTER HERE

Nevada is currently ranked as one of the worst states in the nation for number of vaccines given.

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