Walgreens and CVS pharmacies this week will begin inoculations against the novel Coronavirus, right?

Jamie Tanaka is this Walgreens pharmacy manager.

I'm really excited to be a part of this and to be a part of the solution.

It's really great when patients come in there so thankful and happy toe finally get the vaccine.

And it's nice that this is the beginning of the end of hand them.

The White House this week began coordinating shipments of vaccines directly to 6500 pharmacies, with the goal of reaching about 40,000.

Vaccine distribution comes at a critical time in the United States, with officials expecting the country's coronavirus death toll too soon reach.

Half a million stadiums have been converted into vaccination sites to new centers were readied in Oakland and East Los Angeles this week to serve minority populations.

Each of them is going to be capable of providing 6000 vaccinations per day.

Grady Joseph is with the California Office of Emergency Services.

Our goal is to get these sort of quickly and then be able to scale them to be able to meet the needs of the particular communities that were working to serve.

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Government is already ahead of pace to meet President Biden's goal of 100 million shots in 100 days.

But the rollout has hit problems as states scramble to distribute federal deliveries.

Two months ago, state officials had a surplus and doses sat unused.

Now, they say they face a shortfall.

Weekly shipments air now upto 11 million, up from 8.6 million when President Joe Biden took office.