Health
A new website will connect people with leftover COVID-19 vaccines by sending texts when a shot is going spare – Business Insider
Dr. B has more than half a million people waiting for leftover vaccine doses. The service has launched in Arkansas and New York.
The COVID-19 vaccine is in high demand, with sign-up sites oversaturated and “vaccine hunters” eager to snag a dose. This mad dash for vaccines sometimes results in leftover doses, however counterintuitive that may seem.
Usually it’s because someone booked multiple vaccine appointments and failed to cancel the extras. At the end of the day, a vaccine provider might realize there are doses left over and be forced to use them within six hours of thawing.
Early in the rollout, those extras went to…
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