![]() We have received 208,725, which are required for second doses, and 23.3% of those have already been utilized. The remaining doses are nearly all spoken for already. Those Maryland vaccination providers have now administered nearly 400,000 vaccines, 348,026 of those are first doses and 75.9% of all of Maryland’s first doses have already been completed. And all of phase one is now open, including for Maryland’s residents over age 65. ![]() Including local health departments, hospitals, pharmacies, and assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. As of today, as I said, 95% of the state’s vaccine allocation has already been deployed, distributed and delivered to frontline vaccinators. In the meantime, we’re dealing with what we can actually control here at the state level, by building the broadest possible vaccination network to further expand deployment for the maximum utilization of the limited doses as we received them. I will be discussing that again today with the Biden administration, along with my fellow governors from across the country, immediately following this press conference. And it’s going to require a great deal of patience for many months, while the states continue to push the federal government and the manufacturers to increase their productions and to drastically increase the allocations to the states. As frustrating as this is for every single one of us, this will obviously be a much longer process than any of us would like. 95% of all of those doses allocated to Maryland have already been deployed and delivered directly to the hundreds of providers across the state who are in the process of administering those vaccinations. And today Maryland has only been allotted 5.8% of that amount. Overall, we will require 12 million to reach two doses for all Marylander’s. ![]() At our current pace, Maryland providers are administering an average of more than 18,000 doses each day. Nearly all of which have already been deployed to vaccinators and are already scheduled and spoken for. We currently have a remaining supply of 110,000 first doses available. In order to complete phase one, Maryland will need a total of four million doses. But the plain truth is that for at least the near future, we fully expect the demand for vaccines will continue to far exceed the supply that will be available to us. We’re also hopeful that other promising vaccine candidates are supposedly getting closer to FDA emergency use authorization approval. While we are hopeful that the federal government will be able to keep its pledged to increase production, to increase Pfizer and Medina allocations to the states. Yesterday, the Biden administration was pledging to increase production by 50%. So it goes without saying it is simply an impossibility for all of them to immediately receive it. Right now, Maryland is only allocated roughly 10,000 doses per day, for the roughly two million people who are currently eligible to receive it just in phase one. The primary one currently facing every state in America is the extremely limited supply of vaccines that are being produced and allocated by the CDC and the federal government. And as with any massive new effort, the nation is facing some serious obstacles. The COVID-19 vaccination campaign is the largest peace time undertaking in history. To keep doing the things that help us keep our families and our friends healthy and safe. These encouraging numbers along with the initial launch of safe and effective vaccines makes it possible for us to look forward to the return of a sense of normalcy, but we must continue to do the things that have put us in this position. This month, Maryland statewide positivity rate has declined by nearly 30% to 6.64%, our case rate has declined by 36% to 34.1 per 100,000, and our COVID hospitalizations have declined by 15%. As we continue to navigate this global pandemic here in Maryland, we are continuing to see positive indications in our key data metrics. And later today I will join the nation’s governors for a teleconference with senior Biden administration officials regarding COVID-19 vaccinations. I convened a meeting of the state’s multi-agency command team. David Marcozzi from the University of Maryland Medical System who serves as our senior medical advisor on COVID-19. Secretary Dennis Schrader of the Maryland Department of Health and Dr. Joining me today are Major General Tim Gowan and Brigadier General Jeannie Burkhead of the Maryland National Guard.
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