Here's how many vaccine doses California says it's wasting
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Syringes filled with the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine are displayed on the opening day of a large-scale Covid-19 vaccination site at a parking structure at Cal Poly Pomona University in Pomona, California on February 5, 2021. - The Cal Poly Pomona site is one of two opening in California, with the other located at Moscone Center in San Francisco. According to organizers each site will ultimately have the capacity to administer up to 10,000 vaccine doses per day.Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
As California's COVID-19 vaccine rollout presses forward, stories of accidentally wasted doses are growing. Tales of trashed, spoiled, thawed and expired vaccines are spreading through social media and by word of mouth, and some incidents are confirmed and reported on in the news.