Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Alabama Just Tossed 65,000 Vaccines. Turns Out It's Not Easy To Donate Unused Doses

Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines sit in a refrigerator at a mass-vaccination site in Rhode Island. As demand for vaccines lags in the U.S., expiration dates loom. At the same time, lower-income countries are eager for more doses as infections rise.

Alabama is one of the U.S. states throwing away COVID doses as they expire. But other nations desperately need vaccines — and public health experts would like to vaccines used instead of wasted.

(Image credit: David Goldman/AP)

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