Explains the nonstop vax commercials

[HALL85]

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/06/us-waste-covid-vaccine-dose

Booster fatigue…less than half of country. Virus still mutating and spreading, but now symptoms are very minor with hospitalizations limited to immunocompromised patients. The vaccines will now migrate to a once per year, similar to flu shot.

I wonder what the government committed to Moderna and Pfizer in terms of guaranteed revenue for producing the doses.

 

[Merge]

In a campaign to vaccinate as many people as possible, of course there will be waste. Less than 8% of doses went to waste.

That’s not bad at all. Less than flu vaccine waste. Every single prescription drug has waste associated. You don’t aim to produce the right number. You aim to produce more than enough.

 

[HALL85]

In a campaign to vaccinate as many people as possible, of course there will be waste. Less than 8% of doses went to waste.

That’s not bad at all. Less than flu vaccine waste. Every single prescription drug has waste associated. You don’t aim to produce the right number. You aim to produce more than enough.

It's actually 11% according to the article and the concern is the recent spike, which probably meant they significantly overshot the estimates of people getting boosted.

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

It's actually 11% according to the article and the concern is the recent spike, which probably meant they significantly overshot the estimates of people getting boosted.

I know a quite few people who were scheduled to get their boosters in January. Unfortunately they got Covid in December when the spike was high, with just a cough and some post nasal drip, similar to what they get normally when they get sick. After that they decided not to get the booster because they said it wasn't the worst sickness they ever had combined with the fact they know people who got the same sickness with the booster. I'm sure that has led to the vaccine waste.

 

[Merge]

Meh, really not that big of a deal.

Did as many people get the booster as planned? Probably not, but there are several many contributing factors for that. Overshooting by 10% really isn't that bad. Overshooting is exactly what they plan. Much rather overshoot by 10% than undershoot by 1%.