Note from Audra: A Facebook friend invited me to this page and I thought it worthy of sharing for those of you looking for “waste” vaccines. Click here to request to join the Georgia Vaccine Hunters Facebook Group.
COVID-19 vaccines are an important & precious resource, and unfortunately, many doses are thrown away every day. In this group, we will collect & share information about places where people of any age can get vaccinated without restrictions and *not* at someone else’s expense.This bears repeating – *not* at someone else’s expense – we’re not about taking from more deserving recipients, just looking to eliminate waste.
Thanks to the peculiarities around the extremely cold storage that the COVID vaccines require, there are rare occasions where “spare doses” may go unused & should be made available to anyone including young people.
When a distribution site defrosts a tray with 100s of vials, they must use all the doses within 5 days — before, according to protocol, the remaining doses must be thrown out.
So what happens when not enough old folk have shown up to get their jab and the open tray still has precious doses left about to expire that day? Sites should start letting anyone they can find through the door!
All over the world, stories have spread across social media about nurses flagging down passersby right off the street at the end of each day just to use up these “surplus” shots. In some places, “vaccine hunter” Facebook and Telegram groups have popped up to hunt down centers offering these “leftover,” soon-to-expire vaccines and get them into arms.
This is one of those groups. We aim to connect distribution sites that have expiring doses with willing, mobile, young people who are ready to rush over to get their shot.
Were you able to get vaccinated? Excellent. Tell us where!
