We saw this after the last flu panic too…… loads of wasted flu vaccine after incidents of rationing and vaccine hoarding.
U.S. has 71 million unused flu vaccine doses | Reuters.
The same thing happened this year after the H1N1 panic. Vaccine became widely available only after the flu had abated.
Interested in obtaining the vaccine waned when it became apparent that the panic was overblown, and as usual, the CDC and other government advisory groups had little knowledge about this strain of flu virus.
What’s left is the usual government waste: almost 70 million unused H1H1 flu vaccine doses.
Note that the above linked article pretends to have a figure of U.S. deaths caused by H1N1 virus. That number is actually unknown.
From the memory division of the Pharm, here’s a blast from the 2004/2005 flu season when the fears of shortage drove Illinois governor Blagojevich to order unapproved vaccines from Europe, which were eventually wasted..
Your tax dollars at work………
