A $7 BILLION dollar burning?
"Swine flu vaccine leftovers pile up; Now out of date, $260m in doses to be incinerated" by Mike Stobbe, Associated Press | July 2, 2010
ATLANTA — About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the US public has expired — meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million are being written off as trash....
Can you absorb that write-off, taxpayers?
The outdated vaccine, some of which expired Wednesday, will be incinerated. The amount, as much as four times the usual leftover seasonal flu vaccine, probably is a record. And that’s not even all of it.
About 30 million more doses will expire later and may go unused, according to one government estimate. If all that vaccine expires, more than 43 percent of the supply for the US public will have gone to waste.
Better there than in my arm.
Federal officials defended the huge purchase as a necessary risk in the face of a never-before-seen virus. Many health specialists had feared the new flu could be the deadly global epidemic they had long warned about, but it ended up killing fewer people than seasonal flu.
And we know why and who they are defending, don't we?
Do I need to $pell it out for you?
“Although there were many doses of vaccine that went unused, it was much more appropriate to have been prepared for the worst-case scenario than to have had too few doses,’’ said Bill Hall, spokesman for US Department of Health and Human Services.
Most leading health specialists generally agree with that.
It is not their money.
Millions of doses of flu vaccine typically go unused every year and are marked for burning....
In other words, it is okay that your tax dollars are LITERALLY BURNING AWAY each year, America.
