The potential for Covid-19 vaccine doses to go unused and expire in individual states should not impact plans to distribute vaccines globally, White House Covid-19 adviser Andy Slavitt said in a briefing on Tuesday.
“Our first goal and our first opportunity is that every dose that’s been ordered by a governor in a state gets used,” he said. “There is a very, very small fraction of doses that have been sent out to states that will ultimately not be used."
“These will be fractional amounts and really will not have any significant bearing on our ability to commit to distribute vaccines globally,” he added.
On Tuesday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine urged residents of his state to get vaccinated, saying in a news release that 200,000 doses of the state’s Johnson & Johnson vaccine stock were set to expire before the end of the month. In the release, the governor’s office said Ohio does not have the ability to share these doses with other states or countries.
“Look, it's not realistic to expect that not a single dose will go to waste,” Slavitt said, responding to a question from CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “I will tell you that a very, very small fraction of the doses that have been sent to states, that are in the hundreds of millions, will end up not being used. Remember those doses were ordered by states, delivered by states and should end up in people's arms.”
Slavitt said they’re “working aggressively” to get doses administered, and encouraged states to work with the US Food and Drug Administration on storage solutions.
They “would encourage every governor to who has doses that they worry may be expiring to work with the FDA directly on the proper storage procedures … as they continue to examine processes that will allow the doses to potentially last longer, as they go through those trials,” he said.
The numbers: Only about 11 million people have received the Johnson & Johnson shot – a small fraction of the 171 million people who have been vaccinated in the United States. But nearly twice as many J&J doses – about 21.4 million – have been delivered to states and other jurisdictions, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, however, about 83% of the doses delivered have been administered.
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