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Dr. Peoples says because supply currently outweighs demand, doses often get discarded because there aren t enough patients in a day to receive all of the vaccine doses in an individual vial.
“It doesn’t surprise me, with the chance in the amount of people getting the vaccine. What you have to realize is a lot of it is wasted because we have an ample supply, but we’re not always able to give the total amount of doses in that vial, Dr. Peoples said.
On average, 5-12 doses per day go unused at Peoples Pharmacy alone. Virginia wants to shrink the number of wasted shots.