[Pining_4_TX]

In New York, pharmacists are so afraid of violating the rules on which groups are supposed to get the vaccine firs, that they end up tossing some doses.

[Brian Griffin]

Cardinal rule - no waste

[CatOwner]

I’m waiting to hear stories about people getting charged for a vaccine dose that they never took.

[a fool in paradise]

Leftovers are thrown out. Temperature/time sensitive application and some governors get upset if people “jump the line” so they go unused when patients miss their appointments

[Little Ray]

Working great here in Florida.
They are inoculating the most vulnerable first. At Capital Health, they are going by age, oldest first.

[DoughtyOne]

Always love articles that ask more questions than answers they provide.

Trump’s job was to get the Vaccines to the states. From
there the local people took control and ran the disbursement.

This is one more thing that will be dumped on Trump. Why he
should have been out there administering every vaccine shot.

/s

[RummyChick]

does anyone know when they determine a vaccine is suboptimal or do they?

[G Larry]

It would be more "troubling" if it were truly a "vaccine" or actually prevented you from getting the COVID-19 virus.

It only addresses the symptoms, and does nothing to prevent you from spreading the virus.

Did I mention there are side effects from the vaccine?

[R_Kangel]

.... Trump really messed this thing up .... Don’t Worry though ... Biden will fix it.

[bgill]

The Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, once thawed and diluted, is stable for only six hours in the refrigerator. It cannot be refrozen.

Hmmm. I wondered about the freezing and thawing, so now we know. Just wait until they give you the shot that's been hanging out in the back shelf for a couple weeks.

[Grampa Dave]

In our 3 county, Northern California, area, one hospital had a lot of vaccine intended for health care people that wasn’t needed.

Somehow they had a to call list of the next priority class.

One relative runs a small day car center, and she was called and one relative has a rare muscular diagnosis and she was called.

They both got their vaccinations yesterday and are doing fine today.

[beekay]

This incompetence falls squarely on state and local governments.

They had at least 3 months to develop a plan for distribution, but obviously no workable plan was developed.

Just another program that government has not been able to run effectively and efficiently. They should have given it to a non-government-related private contractor. Capitalism works.

[lightman]

In my part of Pennsylvania extra doses are administered to the next tier/group eligible.

No waste, no waiting for an arbitrary “start group 1B” day.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Remember that as bad as it is in the Progressive states that they are the minority. It could be worse .... we could have the NHS - where people go to die.

[NittanyLion]

But hey, let’s put the government in charge of all our healthcare. What could possibly go wrong?