More than 1,800 coronavirus vaccine doses have been tossed across Massachusetts since the start of the vax rollout, according to the state's latest tally of wasted shots.
100 doses of COVID vaccine spoiled at Suffolk County Jail after human error
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had to be thrown out at the Suffolk County Jail after they became spoiled.
Ten vials, 100 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in total, were refrozen by a contract laborer employed by the Suffolk County Jail’s medical provider, Naphcare, WCVB reported. But the vaccine cannot be refrozen, so the vials had to be thrown out.
The news station reported that none of the spoiled vials were administered to people and pose no threat.
Last month, nearly 2,000 COVID-19 vaccines were disposed of at the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center after a freezer was accidentally unplugged.
State has wasted 1,200 doses of coronavirus vaccine, public health officials say Travis Andersen
The state has wasted over 1,200 doses of the coronavirus vaccine, a fraction of the nearly 1 million doses that have been shipped to Massachusetts so far, according to public health officials.
“As of 2/5: a total of 1,096 doses of Moderna and 176 doses of Pfizer were reported as wasted or 1,272 doses total,” said Ann Scales, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Health, in an e-mail. “Of the 960,100 doses shipped to date this represents a vaccine wastage percentage of 0.13%.”
The wasted doses were previously reported by the Boston Herald.
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Alabama
Montgomery: The state is getting roughly half as much COVID-19 vaccine as it was expecting based on federal plans announced last year, officials said Friday, meaning it would take more than two years to vaccinate the adult population without improvement. The state has 800 approved vaccination sites and is trying to deliver shots as quickly as it can, but supply issues have been the biggest hindrance to state vaccination efforts, said Dr. Scott Harris, head of the Alabama Department of Public Health. “Every state had the idea that they were going to get much more vaccine than they ultimately got,” he said. “I assume this is related to optimistic projections and the inability of manufacturers to keep up that. … There just wasn’t enough vaccine to go around.” Alabama health officials were expecting to get more th