How can West Virginia get over 60% of their jabs done and other states cant?

West Virginia, unlike other states, leaned heavily on its National Guard to lead other state agencies in the vaccination effort, as well as to transport the doses where needed. It was also the only state to opt out of a national vaccination program for nursing homes across the country that was developed by the CDC and is being run by drugstore chains CVS and Walgreens, which many have said is progressing slowly.

West Virginia has also vaccinated different at-risk and essential worker populations at the same time — such as residents over 70, police and firefighters, as well as those who work in key manufacturing sectors and are 50 and older — rather than reserve all of its doses for health care workers.

"We have taken 10,000 square-feet of our National Guard headquarters and turned it into a command center with representatives from all levels of state government," said Maj. Gen. James Hoyer, who retired from the National Guard earlier this month but has stayed on as a civilian to continue managing West Virginia's COVID-19 vaccination effort. "Young soldiers and airmen are out distributing the vaccine across the state. We run this just like a military convoy."

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West Virginia has also vaccinated different at-risk and essential worker populations at the same time — such as residents over 70, police and firefighters, as well as those who work in key manufacturing sectors and are 50 and older — rather than reserve all of its doses for health care workers.

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yeah they got too many doses somehow