In Case You Missed It: Demand Severely Outpacing Supply -- Chinese Flu Vaccine -- Moderna Requests Emergency Waiver To Increase Supply -- January 30, 2021

In case you missed it, in the most recent data provided by the CDC, the government distributed only 830,000 doses of vaccine; meanwhile, 1.7 million doses of vaccine were administered. Demand was 203% of the supply provided in the most recent 24-hour period for which we have data. If there's any hiccup in distribution of vaccine over the weekend, it's going to be a rough Monday.  

From last evening: 

Later, 6:03 p.m. CT: Moderna, apparently saw the same thing I saw today (see below). Breaking news now: "Moderna asks FDA to authorize five additional doses per Covid vaccine vial to speed distribution.

I don't know: adding five additional doses per vial seems to be incredibly risky.

See this post for graphics / spreadsheet.

This is Friday. This is the raw CDC data, no manipulation, simply the CDC data:

	A	B	C	D	E	F
	Doses of vaccine distributed to health facilities	Change from day before	Vaccinations given	Change from day before	Percent of doses given/doses received over previous 24 hours	Percent of distributed vaccine that is actually administered
January 29, 2021	49,216,500	830,225	27,884,661	1,690,979	203.68%	56.66%
January 28, 2021	48,386,275	1,155,325	26,193,682	1,541,048	133.39%	54.13%
January 27, 2021	47,230,950	2,836,875	24,652,634	1,111,640	39.19%	52.20%
January 26, 2021	44,394,075	2,975,750	23,540,994	806,751	27.11%	53.03%
January 25, 2021	41,418,325	6,775	22,734,243	885,588	13071.41%	54.89%
January 24, 2021	41,411,550	0	21,848,655	1,310,665		52.76%
January 23, 2021	41,411,550	1,519,150	20,537,990	696,269	45.83%	49.59%
January 22, 2021	39,892,400	1,932,400	19,841,721	1,392,433	72.06%	49.74%
January 21, 2021	37,960,000	1,969,850	18,449,288	1,924,007	97.67%	48.60%
January 20, 2021	35,990,150		16,525,281			45.92%