CHARLESTON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Gov. Justice reported that West Virginia continues to lead the nation in the rate of COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration.
According to the latest vaccine numbers posted to the COVID-19 DashboardFriday afternoon, West Virginia is now up to a 1st dose administration rate of 93.7 percent.
If you adjust for Friday’s numbers on Bloomberg.com’s COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker, West Virginia’s administration rate is more than 20 percent ahead of second place North Dakota.
West Virginia also remains the top-ranked state in the country for vaccine distribution on a per capita basis, according to the CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccination Tracker.
“West Virginia continues to lead the nation, but that’s not good enough for us,” Gov. Justice said. “While everybody else is trying to figure out a system or standing around, twiddling their thumbs, West Virginia is not only leading the nation, we want to lap the field.
“The bottom line to what is happening in West Virginia right now is just simply this: when we get the vaccines in on Monday, come Sunday nightfall we’re trying, with all in us, to not have one single vaccine on the shelf,” Gov. Justice continued.
West Virginia has recorded a 2nd dose administration rate of 80.0 percent.
To date, West Virginia has administered 124,325 1st doses and 22,612 second doses, totaling 146,937 doses administered overall statewide. In just the past 24 hours, 12,388 vaccines have been administered.
Every 1st dose of vaccine that has been delivered to the state has either already been administered or is assigned to a name to be administered in the next few days.
“We can only give you the vaccines that we have,” Gov. Justice said. “But we continue to push the federal government and, through that, I know that our number of our doses of this incredibly wonderful vaccine are going to go up.”
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