Million doses of COVID-19 vaccines remains unused in U.S. hospitals and elsewhere after a week the country enters into the massive inoculation campaign, making the Trump government's target for 20 million vaccinations this month in doubt. As of Wednesday morning, only 1 million shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine had been administered, about one-third of the first shipment sent last week.

Over 9.5 million doses of vaccines, including Moderna's, have now been sent to states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The hospitals already have started giving out Moderna's vaccine, the CDC has not yet reported that data and experts doubts there may be a lag in reporting shots given of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. In the first week, only 614,000 shots were given although nearly 2.9 million were shipped. The delay reported is mainly due to various factors, the hospitals navigated preparing the previously frozen shots for use, finding employees to run the vaccination clinics, and ensuring proper social distancing both before and after vaccination. Some said only 100 shots were given the first day. 

The government set target of 20 million by 2020 end, meaning nine days to give out nearly 19 million shots or over 2 million people vaccinated a day including on Christmas Day. This week additional 2 million doses from Pfizer BioNtech and 5 .9 million doses from Moderna are to added. U.S. Operation Warp Speed chief adviser Dr. Moncef Slaoui said on a Wednesday press call, "The commitment that we can make is to make vaccine doses available". He noted, the rate with which people get jabs is slow as we thought. Experts suggest to hire someone this December, train them and deploy to put Jab in the month of January, 

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