COVID-19 vaccine doses wasted or expired in Alberta has increased substantially in the last five months.“To date, approximately 10 per cent of the doses received into Alberta have been wasted or expired,” Alberta Health (AH) director of communications Chris Bourdeau told Global News.“By comparison, the wastage in the 2019-20 influenza campaign was approximately eight per cent.”While AH couldn’t provide an exact number of the COVID-19 vaccine doses that were wasted or that expired, the province said it had received 7,836,025 doses in total as of Nov.
12.According to AH, the COVID-19 vaccine wastage rate up until the end of June was 0.4 per cent.“Alberta continues to work hard to minimize wastage, but some increase in wastage is unavoidable.