Anticipating the return of cold and flu season, President Biden is begging for money to fund a new stockpile of updated COVID vaccines.
Americans can only hope that billions of their hard-earned dollars are not once again squandered on experimental medicine that they either don’t need or don’t want, or that doesn’t work.
More than 309 million doses of vaccines, or nearly one-third of the doses manufactured by Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax, went unused by their expiration dates, prompting them to be discarded or given to foreign nations. The price of this waste: more than $2.2 billion, according to the Daily Mail.
When the bivalent boosters became available last year, only 17% bothered to roll up their sleeves. Older adults, often with compromised health, represent the largest cohort who show up for each COVID shot. Still, even their enthusiasm for the jab lags, with only 43% seeking the boosters.
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