Manabu Akazawa, a professor of pharmacoeconomics at Meiji Pharmaceutical University. At least 77.83 million unused coronavirus vaccine doses, worth about ¥212 billion, had been discarded in Japan by February this year, mostly because they were expiring.
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Elvis is here
Get the vax to prevent wastage. The list of reasons to get the vax just gets longer.
Algernon LaCroix
They're being disposed of because people no longer want them, and for good reason if you're not very old or already have seriously impaired health.
The list of reasons not to get them keep getting longer, all of them health-related.
Elvis is here
It would seem that the government, with their effective covid plan, over compensated and did not factor in the less empathetic members of society, whose actions have undoubtedly prolonged the pandemic and cause unnecessary anguish.
It is a scientific fact that vaccines are effective and 3 doses at least is recommended by pretty much everyone, WHO included.
It is worrying that still now irresponsible people are still kicking the "vaccines don't work" can down the road.
jeffb
@Elvis, The reality is that the vaccines don't work in the way that would be needed to end a pandemic. So the prolonging was caused by the overreactive measures that kept people isolated. It's okay to disagree though. That's the process of learning.
Elvis is here
That's quite a bizarre comment to make that demonstrates a lack of understanding what vaccines are meant to do. What is the main purpose of a vaccine?
They help your immune system fight infections faster and more effectively.
Japan had no such measures, it was essentially business as usual. As far as other countries, the vaccines helped lockdowns end faster because controlled immunity from vaccines meant less people became critically ill. Hence an effective vaccine
Indeed. Your final comment is quite disingenuous and compounds my suspicion you are posting on emotion rather than rationale.
virusrex
No, because they are no longer as necessary since the risk from the disease is already greatly diminished, thanks to the same vaccines this has been reached without uncountable unnecessary deaths.
For everybody for whom the vaccines are indicated they are still a much less risky option than the natural infection, if every recognized institution of medical health in the world recommend them for unprotected people that is a much more reliable source of information than just people on the internet making baseless claims.
That is just nonsense, a disease that can reinfect people even after they had very serious cases of the infection is not going to end even if everybody has immunity, the role of vaccines in this case is not eradication but to decrease the risk of infection to a point where is closer to background levels, which is what the covid vaccines achieved beyond expectations.
You keep making that baseless claim even when you have been always incapable of showing the measures were not unjustified. Saving millions of lives is a perfectly valid benefit that justified the lesser costs, specially because vaccines allow for a much safer method to get protective immunity that also saves lives.
CPTOMO
Algernon LaCroixMar. 25 09:17 am JST
They're being disposed of because people no longer want them, and for good reason if you're not very old or already have seriously impaired health.
The list of reasons not to get them keep getting longer, all of them health-related.
In addition, people who have been infected have increased immunity making the vaccines not necessary for them.
virusrex
Vaccination have demonstrated to reduce the risk even for people that have been previously infected, that clearly contradicts your claim. Uninfected people benefit the most from vaccination, but that is not the same as saying that infected people do not benefit anymore from the vaccines as you baselessly claim.