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Unused vaccines pile up across U.S. as some regions resist
Syringes filled with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are shown, Thursday, April 15, 2021, at the Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center in Jackson Memorial hospital in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Published April 16. 2021 1:24AM
Anna Edney and Drew Armstrong, Bloomberg
Many U.S. states and cities have a growing surplus of coronavirus vaccines, a sign that in some places demand is slowing before a large percentage of the population has been inoculated, according to an analysis by Bloomberg News.
The data indicates that as many as 1 in 3 doses is unused in some states. Appointments for shots often go untaken, with few people signing up.
Unused Vaccines Are Piling Up Across U.S. as Some Regions Resist Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Anna Edney and Drew Armstrong
(Bloomberg) Many U.S. states and cities have a growing surplus of Covid-19 vaccines, a sign that in some places demand is slowing before a large percentage of the population has been inoculated, according to an analysis by Bloomberg News.
The data indicate as many as one in three doses are unused in some states. Appointments for shots often go untaken, with few people signing up.
Bloomberg analyzed state and U.S. data from Monday, providing a snapshot of vaccine use before Johnson & Johnson shelved millions of shots pending federal health officials’ investigation into rare cases of blood clots. That pause will likely cause the number of unused shots to fluctuate, but will little change the comparisons of states.
by Bhaswati Guha Majumder - Apr 12, 2021 11:27 AM
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Snapshot
India, which is classified as a lower-middle-income country by the World Bank, has successfully administered around 104 million vaccine doses as of the day.
Five per cent of the world population has been fully vaccinated against the Covid-19. But as per a recent report, most of the vaccines are going to the wealthiest nations.
An analysis of data collected by the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker has revealed that as of now, countries making up the least-wealthy 11 per cent have gotten around 1.6 per cent of the vaccines administered.
While the United States, United Kingdom and UAE and Israel have been providing as many vaccine doses as possible to their countrymen, the worldâs least wealthy continent, Africa, remains as the least vaccinated region.
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