The United States is insufficient of vaccines as outreach expands

The United States is facing a growing threat from more contagious and possibly deadlier virus variants. Vaccination is also steadily widening access beyond the most vulnerable groups, frontline health care workers and nursing home staff and residents. Now, some state officials say they are ready to administer thousands of more shots every day if they can get them.

Racing to ramp up Covid-19 vaccinations, states have opened mass inoculation sites and expanded eligibility. But the country is facing a cardinal issue of not having enough vaccine supplies.

According to a New York Times database, It is gradually administering more doses every day, now up to an average of about 1.7 million.

Last week, California announced that it would soon become one of just a handful of states to expand vaccine access to people of any age with underlying health issues or severe disabilities. But it has already used 72 percent of its doses and has shortages in some areas.

Mr. Garcetti told reporters.“We have a great infrastructure set up, of amazing people, and we will give them to folks efficiently and safely. But the problem is, we still aren’t receiving enough doses soon enough. When vaccines do get to Los Angeles, we know how to administer them,” he concluded

Officials in Georgia say constrained supply is getting in the way of opening up eligibility. When the Atlanta Board of Education called on Gov. Brian Kemp earlier this month to start allowing teachers to be vaccinated, the governor said the state was not getting enough doses for residents who were already eligible.

“I think the dangerous thing is some places are too regimented with the current rules,” Dr. Murphy said. “If you’ve got an extra 50 vials, that’s 500 doses, and nobody is coming, and this thing is going to expire in a matter of days or weeks give it out.”