realitista@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoEU countries destroy €4B worth of COVID vaccineswww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down110cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareBahalex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 months ago‘Vaccines were from the height of the pandemic‘. I believe they meant that since these doses are 2-3 years old, and the virus has mutated several times… these destroyed vaccines are ineffective at this point. Not that vaccines in general don’t work.
minus-squareOtterAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·11 months agoThat’s what I was hoping they meant, but the wording and post history made me think otherwise I agree the doses should have been discarded, the headline is more about the logistics and distribution of vaccines in a pandemic situation
minus-squareBahalex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI just quickly read the bot TLDR, and assumed the best intentions by the poster… I forget myself at times.
‘Vaccines were from the height of the pandemic‘. I believe they meant that since these doses are 2-3 years old, and the virus has mutated several times… these destroyed vaccines are ineffective at this point. Not that vaccines in general don’t work.
That’s what I was hoping they meant, but the wording and post history made me think otherwise
I agree the doses should have been discarded, the headline is more about the logistics and distribution of vaccines in a pandemic situation
I just quickly read the bot TLDR, and assumed the best intentions by the poster… I forget myself at times.