Governments, drugmakers and vaccination sites are discarding millions of unused COVID-19 vaccine doses amid low demand, a sharp reversal from the early days of mass vaccination campaigns, when doses were scarce,
vaccine manufacturer modern Inc. recently discarded nearly 30 million doses of its COVID-19 shot after failing to find takers, while pharmacies and clinics have had to pull out unused doses from multi-dose vials from Moderna and Moderna. pfizer Inc. and its partners BioNTech SE Which have a shorter shelf life once opened.