States Complain of Smaller Covid Vaccine Shipments Than Expected December 17, 2020 Auto Bot Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Factories and Manufacturing, Iowa, Oregon, Pfizer Inc, Vaccination and Immunization, your-feed-healthcare 0 The smaller number of expected doses, which appeared to be the result of a scheduling hiccup, reignited tensions between the federal government and Pfizer over vaccine supply.