TULSA, Okla. — The State of Oklahoma is now back on track when it comes to getting its weekly allocation of COVID-19 vaccine doses from the federal government.

The weekly shipments were thrown off by the mid-February snowstorm causing shipping issues.

The imbalance of vaccine shipments led to a shortage of vaccines after the storms with appointments being made up for once things balanced out and the shipments arrived.

Oklahoma Deputy Health Commissioner Keith Reed expects an influx of appointments over the number of appointments normally posted on the state’s website.

“We’d rather wait a little bit and determine how many appointments we can do based on how much we are given instead of making appointments and then having to cancel them because we don’t have enough doses for all of those signed up,” Reed said when talking about why there may be a noticeable difference in the number of appointments on the state’s portal this week versus next week.

Usually, the state gets its weekly vaccine shipment on Monday or Tuesday of each week, and then makes the determination of how many doses will go where on Wednesday.

On Thursday mornings, the new appointments based on those allotments to vaccine points of distribution are posted, but not all of the doses the state gets means there’s a portal appointment made. Instead, a significant amount of doses, but not a majority of them, are sent out to community partners with special purposes and others are set aside for people needing their second booster dose.

Below you will find links to the websites and apps you can use to find an appointment.

Text service created by Oklahoman Josh Wright. Vaccine-Alerts.com

Oklahoma State Department of Health portal. OSDH covid-19 vacine portal

New CDC vaccine finder site. CDC vaccine finder

Walmart vaccine finder. Walmart vaccine site

Walgreens vaccine finder. Walgreens vaccine site

Initial concerns from the Oklahoma State Department of Health about the federal government not shipping a week’s worth of doses so close together turned out to be false.

Reed announced the number of doses will continue to rise now that Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine is approved.

That boost is expected to relieve some of the strain on the system that is now being seen as all of Phase 2 recipients are now able to make appointments. Those new recipients are estimated to easily be over a million new people who are eligible for the vaccine.

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