Updates on COVID-19 vaccine: Dozens of states and cities are clawing back thousands of extra doses of Covid-19 vaccine that were meant to be used by CVS and Walgreens to immunize residents of nursing homes through a federal partnership set up by the Trump administration.

The partnership, called the Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program, allowed states to tap CVS, Walgreens and other retail pharmacies to vaccinate residents and workers of nursing homes. The federal government asked states to “allocate ample vaccine supply” to the program if they opted in, according to Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But now the program’s been left with “surplus vaccine supply” that at least 32 states and cities are taking back from the program and using for the general public, Nordlund said. She added that a combination of vaccine hesitancy, over-estimation of the number of doses needed for the campaign and other factors led to an oversupply of shots.

Through the partnership, more than 4.2 million doses of vaccine have been administered as of Thursday, according to the CDC. There are almost 5 million long-term care residents and workers in the U.S., the CDC estimates.

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