Vaccine maker destroys 100 million doses of COVID shots due to low demand!

Vaccine maker destroys 100 million doses of COVID shots due to low demand!

A major Indian vaccine manufacturer was forced to toss out 100 million expired booster doses of its COVID-19 shots due to unexpectedly low jab uptake.

Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine producer, has been making India’s version of AstraZeneca’s mRNA COVID shot.

While apparently 298 million doses of the booster shots have been administered in India since the initial rollout, another 100 million doses in stock expired in September and had to be destroyed, the BBC reported Friday. 

The Indian government had attempted to offload the shots in July by launching a marketing campaign to provide free booster shots to adults for 75 days to mark India’s 75 years of independence. However, the effort failed to generate sufficient uptake. 

On Thursday, SII CEO Adar Poonwalla told reporters his company had stopped making COVID-19 shots in December of last year due to a major shortfall in public interest. 

Though India has administered two billion total doses of the shots, according to Poonwalla, there is no demand for the company’s booster shots “as people now seem fed up with Covid.”

“Honestly, I’m also fed up,” he said. “We all are.”

In May, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel told the World Economic Forum (WEF) that his company, a major producer of mRNA COVID-19 shots, would need to toss out 30 million doses of the jabs due to low demand.

“We have a big demand problem,” Bancel said, explaining that though the massive pharmaceutical company has tried to urge jab uptake in other countries “through the embassies in Washington,” Moderna has discovered that “nobody wants to take them.”

“In the U.S. people don’t want vaccines, around the world we have a lot of people who don’t want the vaccine,” he said.

The apparent lack of global interest in receiving continuous doses of mRNA COVID-19 injections comes despite heavy promotion of the jabs as being highly effective in preventing infection with and blocking transmission of the virus. 

That notion has gradually crumbled amid the drugs’ sliding efficacy, failure to stop transmission, and reported adverse events. Following a rash of so-called “breakthrough” cases following mass vaccination in 2021, public health authorities in January 2022 rebranded the concept of “fully vaccinated” to the more tenuous categorization of “up-to-date” on one’s vaccinations. 

Earlier this month, a Pfizer executive made headlines for telling a committee of the European Parliament that the pharmaceutical company hadn’t tested their shots to determine whether they would stop transmission of the virus before rolling them out, generating renewed skepticism about government jab mandates ostensibly designed to protect against community spread.

 

 



 

 

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