By Matthew Roscoe • Updated: 13 Dec 2022 • 16:15
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Spanish news outlet elperiodicodeaqui.com reported that more than 100,000 doses of Covid vaccine in the Valencian Community had to be destroyed as they had expired or had deteriorated due to breakage of the cold chain.
The news was first broken by Popular MP Juan José Zaplana, who prompted the Valencian Community’s Ministry of Health for an answer with regard to how many COVID vaccines had expired from the current stock of the Department of Universal Health and Public Health.
The Regional Ministry of Health replied that 101,390 were destroyed through the companies contracted for the disposal of health waste in each of the health departments” and following the “corresponding protocols.”
The 101,390 destroyed equates to 8.58 doses per thousand.
Following authorisation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), laboratories producing the vaccines set the expiry date.
In this case, these vaccines expired on November 9.
💉Destruidas unas 100.000 #vacunas contra la #covid en la Comunitat Valenciana por haber caducado o estar deterioradas pic.twitter.com/7pPnWV1LY6 — EFE C. Valenciana (@EFE_CValenciana) December 13, 2022
💉Destruidas unas 100.000 #vacunas contra la #covid en la Comunitat Valenciana por haber caducado o estar deterioradas pic.twitter.com/7pPnWV1LY6
— EFE C. Valenciana (@EFE_CValenciana) December 13, 2022
The Regional Ministry of Health in the Valencian Community said that throughout the vaccination campaign, “there have been various revisions of the expiry dates of each of the vaccines, and in all cases, the period of validity has been extended.”
It added: “In some cases, the extension affected frozen vaccines and in others vaccines kept in refrigerated conditions.
The Valencian Community currently has a total of 168,579 vials of bivalent vaccine from Pfizer, which includes both the original variant and the Omicron BA4/5 variant. These vials “are equivalent to 1,011,474 doses of the vaccine,” the regional health ministry said.
Moderna’s bivalent vaccine with the original variant and the Omicron BA1 variant is also available, and it is “expected that in the near future the Ministry’s warehouses will also have the Moderna laboratories’ bivalent vaccine with the original and BA4/5 variants.”
Data shows that only the bivalent Covid vaccine from Pfizer, which includes the original variant and the Omicron BA4/5 variant, is being used for the vaccination of booster doses in Spain.
As of November 13, a total of 438,102 booster doses of this vaccine had been declared, official figures show.
While official data also shows that 12,083,808 doses of the Covid vaccine have been administered in the Region.
When quizzed on why the region has so many spare vaccines, the health department of the Valencian Community said that at the height of the vaccination campaign, when the dispatch of shipments could be interrupted, “it was necessary to maintain a sufficient number in reserve to be able to keep up the optimum rate of immunisation.”
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Originally from the UK, Matthew is based on the Costa Blanca and is a web reporter for The Euro Weekly News covering international and Spanish national news. Got a news story you want to share? Then get in touch at editorial@euroweeklynews.com.
They have so many spare vaccines because finally people are realising that it´s not a good idea. Myocarditis anyone? Or do you prefer Bells Palsy?
Multiply this wastage throughout the western world and it is frightening how much money has been thrown away, and the impact on the environment too of all this extra rubbish, especially sub-standard PPE and discarded face masks – billions and billions of the things. It is why we are all in the financial mess we are in now; politicians just spent money on covid as though it was going out of fashion, and only now are people realising what a terrible impact that is having, worse than covid itself. Some us of have been saying this for a very long time…..
…. people like yourself, numerous doctors, biologists and other qualified people were all written off as conspiracy theorist just for even suggesting there should be some varied dialogue about these vaccines. Now the price of the single-minded narrative is starting to be paid by so many innocent and overly-trusting citizens. Terrible.
I don’t care why they were destroyed but it’s too bad they weren’t destroyed because of the KNOWN harm they do to people that included DEATH! Do not make more and do not push these on people anymore! It’s criminal to do so.
Very early days in 2020 pandemic, a pointed question was sent to the WHO on the mass use of disposable face masks asking advice and guidance as to how and where disposable masks were going to be disposed of and to how they would be clasified as either biowaste of normal waste as we would be looking at billions of masks that would pollute the planet without clear guidance. To date I have received no reply so you may ask why is this Organisation still in business, well it appears only to promote the covid injection program, and no regard for the aftermath.
Possibly it as because pre-covid their official stance was that they (quite rightly) did not recommend face masks as an effective tool for fighting virus pandemics. Then the politicians needed a way of showing that they were doing something and settled on masks as an ideal way to subjugate worried populations. So they leant on WHO and persuaded them to tone down the ‘masks are of little use’ message and give tacit approval for the greater good. The sheep populations of many countries duly obliged and donned their muzzles despite their being zero evidence that the reduce covid transmission. And as you point out, none of them, politicians or scientists, gave any indication as to what to do with the environmental catastrophe that anyone with a brain could see that zillions of stupid face muzzles were going to cause. Well done everybody, hope you are pleased with yourselves.
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