COVID-19 vaccine stocks may go out of date as demand has dipped below supply, according to the globe’s largest manufacturer of jabs. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, on Sunday said the world had stockpiled more COVID-19 jabs than it can use as some of the developing countries are not placing orders. The distribution, infrastructure, and people’s hesitance to get the COVID-19 vaccines have become critical factors in limiting the global vaccination rate, while manufacturing was the main reason at the beginning of the pandemic. “We’ve got so much vaccine now that we’ve got more than we can vaccinate on a monthly basis in India. The concern is very much that in a month or two, shelf life could be an issue,” Poonawalla told the UK’s Sunday Times. “It’s a combination of vaccine hesitancy and nations not coming forward and placing orders in which they claim …
World’s Vaccine Stocks May Expire as Supply Surpasses Demand
December 6, 2021
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