Short AstraZeneca shelf life complicates COVID-19 vaccine rollout to world's poorest

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The relatively short shelf life of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine is complicating the rollout to the world's poorest nations, according to officials and internal World Health Organization documents reviewed by Reuters.

It is the latest headache to plague the COVAX vaccine-sharing project, co-led by the WHO and aimed at getting shots to the world's neediest people.

The problem with a short shelf life largely concerns AstraZeneca, according to COVAX data and officials. Yet Benin received 80,400 AstraZeneca doses from COVAX on Jan. 30, set to expire on Feb. 28. It also got 100,000 doses of the Sputnik Light vaccine from Russia, with the same expiry date - but outside the COVAX initiative. Vaccines from other manufacturers had a much longer shelf life, according to the document.

A spokesperson for Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca said vaccines had to undergo scrupulous quality checks and pointed to the fact that the company was a major player in supporting vaccination drives in poorer nations. With donations from rich countries included, more AstraZeneca vaccines have been distributed by COVAX than any other shot.

Millions of additional AstraZeneca doses shared by the EU, COVAX's biggest donor, have not been distributed yet, according to an EU internal document reviewed by Reuters.

 

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Well that’s one way to get rid of world hunger just give them the worst of the worst shots out there.

The Fake News continues to promote the VAXX Bio Weapons. Remember that as people continue to succumb from them.

Remember all the talk about how they had to keep this garbage super cold? Wtf happened to all that? Just more horse crap?

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