Moderna, Pfizer Sending Extra COVID-19 Vaccines To Ohio

COLUMBUS, OH — Additional shipments of Moderna's and Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccines will arrive in Ohio in the coming days.

Both companies' COVID-19 vaccine shipments were delayed last week due to winter weather, Gov. Mike DeWine said Monday. To fulfill their promised deliveries, the companies are now shipping extra doses to Ohio.

"Some providers used second doses that they had received already so they didn’t have to cancel clinics that they had scheduled. Those second doses will be backfilled with the shipments they receive this week," DeWine said Monday.

Providers who canceled appointments last week should expand their vaccination schedule to include weekends and evenings to make up the lost time, the governor said.

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Here are all of Monday's COVID-19 numbers:

• New cases: 1,611.
• New deaths: 58.
• New hospitalizations: 120.
• New ICU admissions: 16.

At least 887,612 Ohioans have contracted COVID-19 and recovered, the Ohio Department of Health said.

Nearly 12.5 percent of Ohioans have received at least the first part of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the state health department. Nearly 6 percent of Ohioans have received both COVID-19 vaccine shots.

As of Monday afternoon, 1.45 million Ohioans had received at least the first shot and 675,105 Ohioans have completed the vaccination process.