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How Many Vaccine Shots Go to Waste?
Several states aren’t counting — but how many are actually going in the trash?
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As reports emerge across the country of health facilities throwing out unused and spoiled Covid-19vaccines, some state governments are failing to track the wastage as required by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leaving officials coordinating immunization efforts blind to exactly how many of the precious, limited doses are going into the trash and why.