More than 110,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been destroyed in Georgia since December 2020 because they were not being used, state health officials say.
Georgia Department of Health spokesperson Nancy Nydam told CNN that 110,079 doses were destroyed because they were not being used. There are various reason for vaccines to go unused, according to Nydam, including doses not being needed after being prepared, parent or child refusal, damaged vials, syringe leaks and apparent contamination. Vaccines using mRNA, as the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines do, have a short life once they are prepared.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate/allowance for vaccine wastage is 5%, so Georgia is well below that percentage, Nydam said. In March, when demand for vaccine was much higher around the country than it is now, CDC records showed that less than 1% of the 155 million doses reported adminsitered by March 29, were reported as wastage by 35 states, 17 pharmacies and three other federal agencies through March 29.
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