A box holds vails of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at the company's manufacturing facility.
Pima County is expecting more than 44,000 doses of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines this week. The county received 8,200 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine last Thursday.
This week’s vaccine shipment, according to the Pima County Department of Health, is expected to include 21,060 Pfizer doses and 24,000 doses of Moderna.
Other southern Arizona counties are also expecting larger numbers of doses this week. The state Department of Health Services reports that Cochise County is expecting about 7,500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine this week. Santa Cruz County is expected to receive more than 3,000 doses in the coming days.
More than 2.1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Arizona, 774,000 of those doses were second doses.
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