The U.S. drop in demand is leading some states to turn down vaccine shipments.
Louisiana has stopped asking the federal government for its full allotment of COVID-19 vaccine. In Mississippi, officials asked the federal government to ship vials in smaller packages so they don’t go to waste. About half of Iowa’s counties have stopped asking for new doses from the state.
And even as Kansas remains far from reaching the coveted public health standard of herd immunity against COVID-19 – essentially starving off the virus because it runs out of vulnerable bodies – more than 60 counties turned down their weekly allotment of vaccine doses.
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The case poses a dilemma for transplant doctors: People who need organ transplants are at high risk for dying without them, but there s no way to definitively prove an organ donor might not be carrying a disease like COVID-19. You can t 100% prove that someone doesn t have something because we don t have perfect tests, Kaul said. So we try and put together a combination of their exposures, their clinical history, testing, radiology like a CT-scan of the lung of the donor, which was done and didn t show anything that looked like COVID. We do all those things and say, Well, as best we can determine, this donor is safe to use. But unfortunately in this case, there was asymptomatic COVID that was not detected by the standard testing.