The price of each dose ranges between 3 and 31 euros, depending on the brand that sells them.
Balearics have stopped using since the start of the pandemic 85,789 vaccines against COVID-19, either due to expiration or lag. In relation to the latter, since IB-Salut They specify that the drug has been updated depending on the strain that was in circulation at any given time. “They have wasted 1.5 million euros», laments the specialist in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Joan Carles March. In this sense, he explains that the cost of each dose ranges from 3 euros for those from Oxford / AstraZeneca (which have not been available for a long time), to 31 euros for Moderna.
From the IB-Salut they remember that immunogens against coronavirus are borne by the European Union. At this point, March points out that what has happened in the Islands is typical in the rest of what is known as the first world. “Developed countries threw away more than 61 million vaccines in 2022 that had expired in 2021. Incredible but true,” he reproaches. The reason for this waste is that “countries bought more vaccines than they needed because they feared there would be greater demand and they would run out of them.”
Mistakes
In his view, the way of proceeding “was a error». Although he recognizes that it is always necessary to acquire more doses than those strictly planned, in case there is a margin of error, he believes that there should not be “so many more.” Furthermore, he insists that “a very good stock control should have been carried out so that the vaccines that were approaching the date of expiration, 2-3 months in advance, could have been sent to countries that had fewer drugs; that there were many in the world. I think that, just as a European strategy was made to buy vaccines, it should have been carried out at a global level, and that would have favored achieving greater vaccination in the world.
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Balearic Islands, in line for vaccination
2023-09-30 13:02:24
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