The U.S. has wasted over 82 million Covid vaccine doses

[Nevilledog]

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George Monks, M.D.
@GeorgeMonks11
The U.S. wasted over 82 million Covid vaccine doses. #Oklahoma wasted the most: 28 percent of the nearly 4 million doses it received, and #Alaska was second most, which threw away almost 27 percent of its 1 million doses, ⁦CDCgov⁩ data. HT@jeanne7203

nbcnews.com
The U.S. has wasted over 82 million Covid vaccine doses
Vaccine providers say declining demand, large minimum orders and multidose vials make it hard to avoid waste while still offering shots to anyone who wants them.
6:25 PM · Jun 6, 2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/covid-vaccine-doses-wasted-rcna31399


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[louis-t]

1. And the drug companies cheer.

[underpants]

2. CVS and Walmart. Well Joe rolled it out well. That's for sure.

Two retail pharmacy chains, CVS and Walmart, were responsible for over a quarter of the doses thrown away in the United States in that time period, in part due to the sheer volume of vaccine they handled.

[chia]

3. CSV share of discarded doses is just above the national average. Their reasoning is commendable,

they say because of the multi-dose vials, they'll have a walk-in at the end of the day and they'll still open a new vial to get the shot into that person's arm. Regardless if the rest is wasted, they won't turn a person away.

Pharma needs to allow smaller minimum shipments and allow ordering in single vials. These two improvements would go a long way to solving the problem.