SOUTH BEND — Pacific County officials and local healthcare providers ramped up the county’s fight against covid-19 in a big way last week, as they managed to put shots in the arms of more than 1,000 people at mass vaccination clinics in both north and south county.

The good news didn’t last for long, however, as vaccine providers in the county found out last weekend that they would be supplied a total of just 100 doses — going to Ocean Beach Hospital — from the state for this week just ended, putting a halt to any momentum in the effort to promptly vaccinate Pacific County’s elderly population.

Pacific County Health Director Katie Lindstrom said the county’s allotment of doses for this week — or lack of allotment of doses — is “insane.”

“It’s incredibly frustrating,” Lindstrom said. “Incredibly frustrating.”

It comes as the county is trying to move as quickly as possible through a vaccine waitlist with about 3,300 people on it, including 2,200 south county residents. Those on the waiting list will have to wait one week longer to receive the vaccine, as the 100 doses received for this week will go to those needing their second shot to complete the two-shot regimen required for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

The county health department and its local partners — including Ocean Beach Hospital, Willapa Harbor Hospital and Peninsula Pharmacies, among others — each put in “big requests” for this week, Lindstrom said, after completely exhausting their supply last week to provide about 1,000 first doses and several hundred more second doses.

“The state made the decision to divert a lot of the vaccine this week to the mass clinics that they set up that are not accessible for people in Pacific County,” Lindstrom said. The closest of the state’s mass vaccination clinics is in Ridgefield, about two hours away.

The vaccine shortage for this week is especially disappointing, Lindstrom said, because the previous week proved that the county and local healthcare providers have the ability to vaccinate a large number of people in an efficient manner.

“That’s the frustrating part for us, because we can do that. We have the capacity, we have volunteers, we have staff, we have good partnerships with all of our providers. We have all of that, and it does not require any additional resources from the state,” Lindstrom said.