Johnson County will no longer be receiving shipments of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, county health officials say. … Kansas has started saving the Moderna vaccine for other counties that don’t have ultra-cold freezers needed to keep the Pfizer vaccine, which must be stored at temperatures significantly lower than the Moderna vaccine. (Here’s a NPR explainer on why the Pfizer vaccine requires colder storage than the Moderna vaccine.) Since Johnson County has the ability to store Pfizer vaccines, and smaller, more rural counties may not, Kansas will begin diverting Moderna doses to those other counties and send Pfizer doses to Johnson County.
Source: Prairie Village Post
