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Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Arriving in Tennessee

Dec 18, 2020 | 6:00 AM

The Tennessee Department of Health announced the state expects to receive its first shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on or around Monday, Dec. 21. Tennessee expects to receive an initial allocation of a total of 115,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine over the next two weeks and should be shipped to all 95 Tennessee county health departments. Smaller hospitals that are not receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are expected to receive Moderna vaccine the week of Dec. 28. Initial supplies of the COVID-19 vaccines are limited. The first allocations of both the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines in Tennessee will be used to provide first vaccine doses to qualifying individuals.