Spokane Arena vaccine appointments rescheduled due to national weather delays

The majority of vaccine doses set to be delivered to providers in Washington this week have not arrived due to severe weather across the country.

The federal government coordinates delivery schedules, and doses arriving from parts of the country hit hard by winter weather and power outages have been delayed.

Doses scheduled to arrive at the Spokane Arena were coming from Mississippi, and they have yet to be shipped, local site coordinators said.

“We don’t have a way to anticipate when (doses) will arrive,” said Jennifer Dixon, with the Department of Health.

About 1,200 people will be vaccinated by the end of Thursday, after CHAS Health was able to

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