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The EU destroys 4 billion euros of anticovid vaccines. What is the cause?

2023-12-20 11:16:17Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The EU destroys 4 billion euros of anticovid vaccines. What is the cause?

At least 215 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines bought by EU countries at the height of the pandemic have been wasted, at an estimated cost to taxpayers of €4 billion. The figure was evaluated by a POLITICO analysis specifying that and why the staggering figure is considered underestimated.

Since the first coronavirus vaccines were approved in late 2020, EU countries have collectively received 1.5 billion doses - more than three for every person in Europe. Many are now in warehouses across the continent.

Calculations based on available data show that EU countries administered an average of 0.7 vaccines for each member of their population. At the top of the list is Estonia, which has received more than one dose per capita, followed by Germany, which has also thrown down the largest volume of crude.

If this average waste rate is projected across the rest of the EU, it would equate to more than 312 million vaccines being destroyed. It is not easy to find out how many vaccines have been given. Governments, including the EU's second most populous country, France, are reluctant to reveal the scale of the waste.

POLITICO's calculations are based on figures from 19 European countries.

Germany, for example, gave POLITICO its waste figures in June; at that time there were another 120 million vaccines placed in storage. Vaccine makers have also introduced newer versions that are adapted to the latest variants of the coronavirus, making older vaccines obsolete and more likely to be discarded.

POLITICO calculates the value of the 215 million vaccines lost at more than 4 billion euros, based on vaccine prices reported in the media. For countries that reported only the total number of vaccines destroyed, without breaking it down by vaccine type, POLITICO used a weighted average price of 19.39 euros calculated from data submitted by countries that provided a list.

Again, this figure is almost certainly a minimum. But even €4 billion is a significant amount, equivalent to a major infrastructure project or Croatia's annual healthcare costs.

Many of the vaccines in question were bought at the height of the pandemic in 2021, when the EU, US and UK were scrambling to secure a limited number of doses. It was during that time that the EU drew up its single biggest contract to buy 1.1 billion doses from Pfizer and BioNTech.


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