Thursday, June 9, 2022
By EARYEL BOWLEG
Tribune Staff Reporter
ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
DESPITE a noted drop in vaccine uptake for the past several months, health officials have not thrown away any doses due to being granted shelf life extensions by international regulators.
Ministry of Health and Wellness Vaccine Committee co-chair Dr Gina Archer yesterday told The Tribune the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has advised that vaccines should not be binned unless there is absolute certainty the jabs have expired.
Last month, Dr Danny Davis, co-chair of the National Vaccine Consultative Committee, warned that Pfizer vaccines that were due to expire at the end of this month may have had to be thrown away if vaccine uptake did not increase soon. He added that a batch of vaccines were expected to expire at the end of August.
According to Dr Archer, a batch of Pfizer vaccines will expire this October.
However, she added, this could change as every two to three months new data is released advising that the shelf life of vaccines is being extended. She pointed to an advisory from the CDC “that you should not throw them out unless you’re absolutely certain they have expired”.
Dr Archer said: “No vaccines have been thrown out. The extended expiry dates are constantly being adjusted based on the outcomes of stability studies. Currently the extended shelf lives have moved from six months to nine months.”
Dr Archer went on to note the decline in vaccine uptake compared to the initial introduction.
“Well, let me give it to you this way: There has been a drop off in the uptake of vaccines on the whole - Pfizer and the AstraZeneca. Right now we don’t even have AstraZeneca in country, but we do approximately 1,500 vaccinations a week.”
According to the government’s vaccine tracker, 167,073 people have been fully vaccinated and 156,947 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine as of June 4.
This total includes Bahamians and residents who were fully vaccinated aboard and registered on the vax.gov.bs platform.
The tracker said there were 348,575 vaccines administered.
The tracker indicated total doses administered included extended and booster doses. Extended and booster doses do not contribute to the count of fully vaccinated persons or persons with at least one dose.
Comments
ohdrap4 says...
> However, she added, this could change as every two to three months new data is released advising that the shelf life of vaccines is being extended.
They thinks I stupid.
I will only take expired vaccine if it is half price.
Posted 9 June 2022, 3:16 p.m. Suggest removal
Sickened says...
Now is probably the safest time to take it - as it's probably only water now.
Posted 10 June 2022, 9:42 a.m. Suggest removal
carltonr61 says...
The medical associations around the world are bursting with covid related money now attached to all new jobs and tourist industry. They simply have our lives constitutionally shackled to their profits as new slaves paying them for tests tests tests and Vax that don't prevent, don't protect and spread covid spike proteins. As the world breaks away from covid, like emancipation, we always get the message late.
Posted 9 June 2022, 4:32 p.m. Suggest removal
JokeyJack says...
I did the same with a gallon of milk the other day. I poured a glass and found it to be spoiled. I foolishly had not noticed the expiration date when i bought it. Silly me. Anyway, i just grabbed a pen and ...
Posted 10 June 2022, 6:39 a.m. Suggest removal
Sickened says...
Lol! Just change the date.
Posted 10 June 2022, 9:43 a.m. Suggest removal
tribanon says...
LMAO
Posted 10 June 2022, 11:16 a.m. Suggest removal
happyfly says...
My brother-in-law has had 4 doses of vaccine. FOUR !! He is currently really sick with Covid....and if anyone says it would have been worse if he wasnt vaccinated I am going to scream. The same people who are telling us that the vaccine shelf life can be extended are the same people who PROMISED US that if we got the jab (ONE JAB) we would not contract covid AT ALL and we would NOT spread covid to grandma. At what point are we going to hold these liars accountable ??!!
Posted 10 June 2022, 7:26 a.m. Suggest removal
CoolCatBD says...
The brother-in-law, need to wait three mouths, then take the fifth jab, after doing this, he will be considered "Super Vaccinated". The Super Vaccinated, will receive 27 virgins!
Posted 10 June 2022, 10:24 a.m. Suggest removal
JokeyJack says...
A friend of mine (an unvaccinated human hating low-life) got in a car accident last week and broke both his legs. I told him, if he had been vaccinated he would have only broken one leg. He did not want to hear about it. The unbelievers !!!!! May they be condemned to suffer for all eternity in a secret experimental laboratory. China or Ukraine, either would be a fitting penalty. I have some contacts in both countries via the Dark Web and am trying to trick my friend into getting on a plane ( so he can get the "help" he needs).
Posted 10 June 2022, 10:27 a.m. Suggest removal
CoolCatBD says...
My friend, if everyone in a 3-mile radius would have been vaccinated, no one would have broken anything!
Posted 10 June 2022, 10:49 a.m. Suggest removal
Sickened says...
Exactly! They need to do a door to door search for the unvaccinated in the 3 mile radius of the accident. Lock up the true criminals.
Posted 10 June 2022, 11:07 a.m. Suggest removal
CoolCatBD says...
I am not sure what to think about this!
https://summit.news/2022/06/09/rich-peo…
Posted 10 June 2022, 12:20 p.m. Suggest removal
CoolCatBD says...
Police in Spain have uncovered a scam involving more than 2,000 famous people, including top medical personnel and the head of a major pharmaceutical company, who illegally bought fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates from a nurse without taking the shot.
Posted 10 June 2022, 12:24 p.m. Suggest removal
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