U.S. wasted over 82 million COVID vaccine doses: report


LOS ANGELES, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The United States discarded 82.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from December 2020 through mid-May this year, just over 11 percent of the doses the U.S. federal government distributed, according to a report of NBC News.

Two retail pharmacy chains, CVS and Walmart, were responsible for over a quarter of the doses thrown away in the United States in that time period, in part due to the sheer volume of vaccine they handled, said the report published on Monday, citing data offered by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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