US says 82.1 million doses of coronavirus vaccine were discarded by mid-May, suggests Walmart-CVS drugstores There is a quarter of the remainder. Most of them are due to the lack of people to inject at the end of the day, power outages, broken refrigerators, expired vaccines before use.
Issara News Agency (www.isranews.org) Situation report on the COVID-19 outbreak or the corona virus The US news agency NBC reported that agencies and organizations in the United States. Pharmacies, state, federal and private sector agencies lost a total of 82.1 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine from December 2020 through mid-May. In other words, it accounts for 11 percent of all vaccines the government provides to citizens.
The information comes from the US Centers for Disease Control or the CDC. which was previously reported at the end of the month Last February, the United States had lost more than 65 million doses of vaccine.
The news report goes on to say that Walmart and CVS, the largest U.S. pharmacies, account for more than a quarter of vaccine wastage. Walmart pharmacies that received nearly 44.6 million doses of vaccines lost more than 10 million doses, while CVS pharmacies that received more than 89.9 million doses lost 11.8 million doses of vaccines. million doses
“This is a huge loss under epidemic control measures. Especially in the context that millions of people around the world still don’t have access to the first dose of the vaccine,” said Dr Sheila Chenoi, an infectious disease specialist at Yale Medical College.
The waste of such vaccines is caused by the expiration of the vaccine in the pharmacy before its use, the waste of the vaccine due to a power outage or refrigerator failure, and the vaccine. Some doses that were already opened had to be discarded at the end of the day when no one had come to the vaccination center.
The CDC has now issued guidelines for vaccines in glass vials that can be used multiple times. in order to reduce the wastage of vaccines.
Compiled from: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/covid-vaccine-doses-wasted-rcna31399