Biden Administration Set To Throw Away Over 50 Million Doses Of Covid Vaccines After Approval Of Updated Ones

Days after the FDA approved the bivalent Covid-19 vaccine booster shots, designed to target the Omicron variant and its subvariants, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky immediately signed-off on them as well, officially greenlighting their administration as soon as possible.

These shots are designed to be boosters only, and not replace the original two-dose regimen. Those who have already taken one or two other boosters are eligible to take this one as well, though that could change at some point down the road, as eligibility for all the vaccines have expanded after a time.

But now the federal government is in a pickle as to what they are going to do with the backstock of the original vaccines they ordered. Because of the FDA’s and CDC’s approval of the updated doses, it essentially kicks the other ones to the curb.

It is being perceived that the Biden Administration will probably dispose of over 20 million doses of the original Moderna vaccine, and roughly 30 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine. This over 50 million doses does not even include the millions more that have been distributed to pharmacies and healthcare clinics all over the country.

Stat News wrote,

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The administration is unsure how to use those shots now. Between 200,000 to 300,000 people above the age of 12 are still getting their first or second shot each week, the official said — meaning there is still use for the original vaccines — but demand will plummet as the updated vaccines move across the country.

By the middle of this past weekend, nearly 4 million doses of the variant-targeting bivalent vaccines will be dispatched to roughly 15,000 sites, the official said. That’s a fraction of the overall 175 million doses of the new vaccines the government ordered to battle the BA.5 and BA.4 wave and curb an expected fall case surge.

Nearly 80 percent of Americans have received at least one vaccine, while 67 percent are considered fully vaccinated. Those numbers have hardly budged for months as vaccine holdouts resist outreach campaigns — leaving the question of whether the stockpiled primary doses could become obsolete.

Concerns about the doses expiring before they can be used have U.S. officials mulling more international donations. But they’re worried, too, about depleting the existing stockpile, which for now is expected to last at least through mid-December.

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My fear is that the bivalent vaccine ends up in populations that probably need it less.

William Moss, executive director of Johns Hopkins University’s International Vaccine Access Center and vaccinology lead for the university’s coronavirus resource center, said

Moreover, the U.S. is facing a problem where the feds cannot simply donate them to other countries as much, because many of these nations are saying vaccine demand is quite low for them as well.

We’ve gotten to the point where there’s a glut of supply from a global perspective, that hasn’t translated all the way down to every local context. This has become more of a … distribution and delivery challenge as opposed to purely supply challenge.

Krishna Udayakumar, founding director of Duke University’s Global Health Institute, said

The Moderna CEO lamented earlier this year that his company would have to throw out 30 million doses because “nobody wants them.”

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Proverbs 18:9

The government loves to waste our money, so this is not surprising. To the same token, however, because new product is on the market, I would expect the media to try and propagandize everyone again within a few weeks or sooner, especially this winter.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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