Here's a little refreshing honesty from a public official. Indiana has been receiving a lot more per capita doses of H1N1 vaccine than Kentucky, which means Indiana ordered its supplies much earlier and asked for more:
When asked about Kentucky's slow rate of ordering and receiving the vaccine, Gwenda Bond, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department for Public Health stated “We don't have a good answer for that.”
That's not exactly, "We screwed up," but it's probably as close as a government worker can come.
The story also had an interesting use of "sorely" as an intesifier in the opening sentence. "Kentucky lags sorely behind Indiana in reference to receiving their allocated H1N1 vaccines." You usually hear the word as ad adverb modifying a verb form, i.e. "sorely missed," "sorely tempted," "sorely lacking," but adverbs can modify adjectives, too. "In reference to" is pretty awkward, though.
