Pennsylvania Double Counted 500K Vaccine Doses

Pennsylvania Double Counted 500K Vaccine Doses
(Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)
Pennsylvania’s number of vaccinated residents shrank by more than 500,000 last week after the state revealed it counted some doses twice.

The discovery came Friday when the Department of Health said more than 11.3 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered, down from 11.8 million the day before. The figure reflects vaccination rates in 66 of the state’s 67 counties. Philadelphia receives its own allocation of immunizations from the federal government.

Maggi Barton, a department spokesperson, said that staff has been working to connect first and second doses with residents, so duplicated data was removed from its system. Health care facilities sometimes used different software that resulted in unidentified doses that had to be rectified, as well as instances when residents received first and second doses from different providers.

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